Company
SHERPANY logo

SHERPANY

www.sherpany.com
Location

Remote, but you must be in the following location

  • 🇪🇺 Europe
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Backend Engineer (Europe Remote)

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011, it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 300 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors, Sherpany is one of the best scale-ups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

Tasks

What you will be doing:

  • Developing new features in product’s REST API and maintaining the existing ones in accordance with the best web security practices

  • Optimizing the performance of the application

  • Writing and maintaining unit tests

  • Taking part in the design process of new features by providing feedback from Backend Engineer’s perspective

Requirements

What we will love about you:

  • Experience with RESTful API design

  • Extensive experience developing and deploying web apps with Python/Django

  • Ability to debug at all levels of the stack

  • Experience with asynchronous processing (we’re using Celery)

  • Strong understanding of SQL, especially in the context of performance

  • Knowledge of Docker & familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystem and related technologies is a plus

Your mindset:

  • you are eager to learn more and not afraid of making mistakes

  • you like to ask questions, take chances, and encourage new approaches and ways of thinking.

  • you are a self-starter with a high level of attention to detail

  • you have a „get-it-done“ attitude and always aim for the best possible solutions

  • you appreciate working in a team with highly motivated and driven people

  • comfortable with regular context switches to unblock your team and communicate with internal and external stakeholders

  • able to stake out short, mid and long-term tasks based on a (multi-) yearly roadmap and assign appropriate priorities

Benefits

How you can imagine us:

You are part of a company with people working from everywhere in the world, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome

  • In order to maintain your work-life balance we offer flexible working hours, home office and/or remote-working

  • Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education, trainings etc.

  • We work with modern Apple products; every employee receives an own MacBook

  • Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us, which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a value-centric cooperation

Our recruiting process:

  1. Interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist

  2. Show us your skills in a Code Challenge

  3. Meet our Squad Lead and BE Chapter

  4. Meet our VP of Engineering and your potencial future Squad

  5. Offer 🎉

  6. Join us and become a Sherpanee! 🚀