Senior Backend Engineer (вакансія неактивна)

About the company:

Letyshops is more than a company, it is a shopping community, which grew from a startup to a strong international company in 10 years.
Our product is popular in more than 20 countries. We continue to explore new markets and aim to cover the entire world.
We have saved our users $100M, intending to put Ukraine on the tech map of the world. We aim to save users $100M weekly with a new, revolutionary product set to transform shopping worldwide.

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who will join our team and help build a platform that will be the foundation for an ambitious project and with which distributed teams will work.

About the project:

This is an entirely new product that we are writing from scratch, using our many years of expertise and considering all the pitfalls we know about.

As Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Own, implement, and deliver projects or big-sized features within the team
• Independently identify the right solutions to solve ambiguous, open-ended problems
• Develop high-quality software design and architecture following the internal standards, policies, and best practices
• Specify uncertain requirements and proactively spread them throughout the team
• Proactively documents existing and new features or projects
• Collaborate with internal teams to fix and improve product
• Proactively contributes to improvements in the observability and quality of the system

What you’ll be using:

• Java for write your application code
• PostgreSQL, MongoDB, for most persistent data storage
• Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
• gRPC for S2S communications
• Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services
• AWS for most of our infrastructure
• Elasticsearch for storing and analyzing events

We’re looking for someone with:

• strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
• more than 5 years of commercial engineering experience
• English B2 or higher
• desire to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) actively use
• product mindset: you want to make decisions based on the value they create for Users and business
• comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
• interests in distributed systems and writing resilient applications

Hiring process:

1. HR Prescreen call (~30 min)
2. Interview with Hiring Manager (~45 min)
3. Technical interview (~1:30 hour)
4. Behavioural Interview (~45 min)
5. Team Interview (~45 min)
6. Final culture fit interview with СEO (~45 min)