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Emma – The Sleep Company

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Posted 16 Days Ago
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Remote
3 Locations
Senior level
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3 Locations
Senior level
Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for Emma’s fulfillment operations, ensuring high performance and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
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Ready to lead, disrupt and reinvent the sleep industry?

We are Emma – The Sleep Company. Founded in 2015, we’ve become the world’s largest D2C sleep brand, available in over 35 countries with more than 25 stores across Europe. Recommended by leading consumer associations in EMEA, APAC, and the Americas, we develop the best sleep comfort products that empower our customers to awaken their best every day. 
  
At Emma, we are a community of smart, driven people, united by a strong culture of collaboration, teamwork, and knowledge sharing. We think big, take ownership, and are empowered to drive meaningful impact. Through hands-on experience, mentorship, and continuous learning, we drive our own growth and learning. With Emmies from over 60 nationalities and offices across multiple regions, our diverse perspectives enrich our workplace culture. Ready to shape the future of sleep with us? Let’s make it happen!

 
We are seeking a talented and passionate Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic team. 

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining high-performance APIs and distributed systems to support our fulfillment chain. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and frontend developers to build reliable and scalable services that power our global operations. 

 

What you'll do:

  • You will design, build, and scale backend services in Go to support Emma’s global fulfillment and logistics operations, helping us become the world’s leading sleep brand. 
  • You will develop and maintain robust, secure, and high-performance REST APIs that integrate with various internal systems and third-party providers. 
  • You will work with event-driven architectures using AWS services such as SNS, SQS, ensuring smooth communication across distributed systems. 
  • You will take ownership of backend components end-to-end—from development and testing to deployment and monitoring (full DevOps). 
  • You will ensure high code quality through automated testing, code reviews, and continuous delivery pipelines. 
  • You will be part of an agile, empowered team, actively sharing knowledge, mentoring team members, and fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. 
  • You will contribute to recruiting efforts to help us grow our high-performing tech team. 

Who we're looking for:

  • You have a strong track record of designing and delivering scalable and performant backend systems in a cloud environment, preferably with Go (Golang). 
  • You are experienced in building event-driven architectures using AWS SNS/SQS, and are familiar with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes). 
  • You have solid understanding of RESTful API design, microservices, and systems integration patterns. 
  • You bring deep knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and software design patterns. 
  • You have several years of proven experience in backend software development, ideally in a fast-paced E-commerce or logistics-focused environment. 
  • You are familiar with CI/CD pipelines and take pride in writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code. 
  • You are highly self-organized, with a strong sense of ownership and proactive problem-solving mindset. 
  • You are a team player with strong communication skills, and thrive in a collaborative, feedback-driven environment. 
  • Experience working with monitoring tools and implementing observability best practices is a plus. 
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience is required. 

What we offer:

  • Competitive compensation package. 
  • A combination of personal and company growth to accelerate your career and help you reach your goals. 
  • A career development path with access to mentorship, training, and learning resources tailored to your growth. 
  • The opportunity to work on exciting and impactful projects with a collaborative, international team. 
  • A culture that values innovation and initiative, where your ideas and contributions are encouraged and appreciated. 
  • The chance to learn from experienced professionals across disciplines and participate in team-building and company-wide events. 

Become an Emmie

Emma is transforming the world of sleep - and we want the highest-performing people to help us pull it off. We want you. But only if you're willing to go all in. Only if you're willing to question, disrupt, innovate, and create from the ground up. ​

We proudly celebrate diversity. We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to promoting inclusion in our workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.

Our aim is to get back to you in a couple of days, however, we are currently receiving a large number of applications and this might lead to a delay in the process. We will get back to you as soon as possible!

Top Skills

Aws Sns
Aws Sqs
Docker
Go (Golang)
Kubernetes
Rest Apis

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