Senior Backend Engineer - Lisbon

Job Description
About Us
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we've achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 3500 midsize and multinational companies.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Monzo, Happy Socks, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help them create the best work experiences for their people.
Come and be you with us
Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work.
Job Requirements
Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes, they aren't the only factor. If you don't have nearly enough experience, or not all the skills, we'd still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.

• 6+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a strong emphasis on backend development.
• Excellent knowledge of software design and scalable architecture.
• Experience with testing methodologies - unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
• Experience with AWS or an equivalent cloud platform.
• Experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.
• Willingness and openness to help us decouple from and replace legacy systems (C#).
• Independent, fast learner, and excited about learning new technologies.
• Proactive team player with a desire to impact our team, our product, and our customers.
• Experience coaching and mentoring fellow team members.

The following are a big plus

• Experience with Python as a primary programming language.
• Experience developing a financial planning application / HR related product.
• Experience with data pipelines, PySpark and AWS Glue.
• Experience with OLAP datastores, e.g. SingleStore.

Job Responsibilities
What will you do?
HiBob is a vibrant, dynamic, happy place to work. A start-up with an amazing culture, and bright and resourceful people in Lisbon, London, Amsterdam, New York, Sydney, and Tel Aviv. We're growing fast and looking for talented and passionate Backend Engineers to join us!

• Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable back-end systems for the data ingestion backbone of our Financial Planning product.
• Collaborate with product managers, front-end engineers, and other stakeholders to implement new features and ensure alignment with the overall product roadmap.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code.
• Integrate with external data providers, such as Snowflake, NetSuite and Stripe.
• Build and optimize APIs to support seamless integrations across our platform.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Take ownership of the full development cycle, including technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

As a Backend Engineer on the team, you'll have a key role in developing our product and its unique features, working closely with our Product team.
You should be passionate about software engineering and building a product end-to-end.
You will be responsible for owning the dev cycle from the technical design, through coding and testing, to deployment and monitoring.
We work in a true continuous delivery environment with fully automated QA processes on a microservices architecture, deploying to production dozens of times every day.
Benefits
Join our village
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this: competitive compensation

• Company share options plan
• Health Insurance for you and your family.
• Prepaid meal card per day
• We have a flexible hybrid working model
• Work from home allowance - to get your home office set up!
• 2 Social Impact days per year for volunteering
• Awesome employee referral program- $2,500 for each successful referral with an additional ambassador programme
• Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to 2 months (after 6 months of employment)
• Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
• Bob balance days - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
• If this sounds like something you've been looking for, we'd love to have you. Come on, join our village!

***Learn about HiBob's hybrid working model ***