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Miuros is a fast-growing startup on a mission to make Customer Service smarter and faster for everyone, leveraging on domain expertise and Artificial Intelligence.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer that supports the company’s growth and helps it get to the next level.
Sounds good. So what will I be working on?
- Introduce innovations (from monitoring systems and message queues to new frameworks) to improve reliability and performance
- Develop new API-based integrations to connect Miuros to innovative Customer Service/Management platforms
- Feed the data scientists with data, abstracting away some of its complexity
- Maintain and extend a relational database that serves our frontend
- Implement dev ops to make all dev lives easier (including yours)
- Scale our architecture as the company grows, optimizing performance and resource consumption
What are you expecting from me?
- You are passionate about object-oriented programming and writing code that is easy to (1) understand, (2) maintain/extend, (3) test, (4) re-use
- You are passionate about finding simple solutions to complex problems, with one eye on your weekly goals and the other on long-term benefits
- You are a driver. You can work with limited supervision, but you are also happy to brainstorm on technical solutions with the dev team, be receptive to feedback, and coach more junior profiles
- You can work from our offices in Paris or Lyon, or remotely anywhere in Europe. You are experienced with working in a remote team setup
- You love Agile and can help transition to more structured processes as the dev team grows
- You are fluent in English, you can communicate what you have in mind effortlessly and can write documentation
- You are very competitive at chess and table tennis (joking — if you can beat everyone in the team, we wouldn’t like it)
Okay, but what technologies should I be really good at?
- Java (5+ years)
-- Design patterns (you can write an iterator or a singleton blindly)
-- API clients (you eat Json and HTTPS for breakfast)
-- Logging (you love logging libraries and hate System.out.println)
-- Unit testing (you are happy only when you see a full green bar)
-- Profiling (you don’t panic for an OutOfMemoryError)
-- External libraries (you don’t like to reinvent the wheel) - Relational databases (5+ years)
-- Postgres (preferred), MySQL, Oracle
-- Data modelling (you understand the pros and cons of normalizing data)
-- Query optimization (you can read a query plan and act on it)
-- Performance and administration (you know when to vacuum, partition, precompute data and create tablespaces) - Sys admin (3+ years)
-- Familiarity with tmux, vim, crontab, top, grep and other standard tools
-- Unix scripting (after doing the same thing 5 times, you know it’s time to automate, and you can do it quickly)
-- Scalability (you can scale a single-machine env into a distributed system)
-- Keep the machines secure (library updates, firewalls, access control, etc)
-- Inspect logs for quick troubleshooting - Dev ops (3+ years)
-- Git (you pull, branch, merge like a ninja, and adopt workflows like GitFlow)
-- Building and deploying (you can set up Continuous Integration)
Is that it? Anything else?
Since you asked, it would be a plus if you also had some experience in some of these areas
- Managing an AWS infrastructure
- Scripting in Python
- Working with MongoDB or other NoSQL databases
- Working with Elasticsearch
- Front-end dev (Javascript, CSS, Angular.js, React, etc)
Can I share something more about me?
Yes, you should!
- LinkedIn profile
- StackOverflow profile
- GitHub profile
- A brief description of an exciting project you have been working on, whether it was for a company, an open-source library, or pure fun.