Senior Backend Developer

If you’re great at writing kick-ass code, aren’t afraid of databases and want to work and grow at a fast-growing international startup – this is the job for you! It is a perfect opportunity for people who are looking for real technical challenges and desire to be part of the transition in moving to newer technologies and making things better.

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Your responsibilities include:

• Writing high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code to further develop and improve Scoro.
• Identifying and suggesting solutions to technical problems.
• Taking responsibility for the developments you make along with the team of professionals from front-end to designers and product managers to other back end developers.
• Mentoring more junior developers to improve and grow their skills.
• Taking ownership and driving improvements and initiatives in your team and beyond.

We offer:

• Stock options package to all our employees.
• Flexibility in how, when, and where you work as we trust that you choose the best and most efficient way for your work-life blend.
• Well-being perks, mental health services, 3 health days (that you can also use as an additional vacation) and extra loyalty days depending on your tenure.
• A clear career path system to support vertical or horizontal growth and steps needed to be taken.
• A cozy working space in Riga downtown with a selection of drinks, snacks and an atmosphere flooded with humor and sarcasm, and of course – great team events and trainings.
• Individual budget for purchasing books or participating in online courses.
• A chance to work on improving an industry-leading platform that is used globally by 1000+ companies in over 60 countries and experience the excitement and challenges of a fast-growing tech company.
• An international team and unique company culture that is built on trust, common sense, and a dose of laughter.
• Salary based on the experience between 3900 – 5200 euros/gross.

You might be our newest Scorer if you have:

• 5+ years’ work experience in programming
• Knowledge of PHP and SQL, and relational database structures (MariaDB)
• Ability to write high-quality code, readable and easy to understand, in different programming paradigms, following good design principles and patterns.
• Experience with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
• Extensive use of unit testing and other higher-level automation testing
• Ability to independently solve complex problems and design and architect software solutions
• Passion for quality and an ability to engineer it at all stages of software development
• Good mentoring skills
• Skills to plan your own time
• Experience working with git

You get extra points for:

• Having a degree in IT
• Experience with NodeJS and Go
• Having a full-stack approach and knowledge of VueJS is a big plus
• Experience with pair programming, TDD and continuous delivery concepts
• Experience with MongoDB