Backend Engineer (gn)

At 7Mind we're building tools to live a mindful life. Join our product team and help us build the future of mindfulness and beyond.

• Work on new and existing products
• Desire to improve the customer experience in known, and unknown, pain points
• Be part of a cross-functional team working with proven technologies
• Collaborate with mobile and web developers to understand problems and build solutions
• Deploy and maintain critical applications - including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tools - in a cloud-native environment
• Be involved in making architectural decisions and push us to disrupt our status quo
• Keep in touch with evolving industry trends to help us improve our systems

Must-Have

• A desire to understand problems before solving them
• Willing to take and share ownership of parts of the product
• Strong communication and documentation skills in English (German is a plus)
• 3+ years experience in general backend development
• An interest in functional programming languages (esp. Elixir)
• Passion for clean, maintainable and testable code
• Solid understanding of the full web technology stack (e.g. HTTP, cookies, asset loading, caching, REST, Websocket)
• A working knowledge of building and managing CI/CD pipelines

Nice-to-Have

• Prior knowledge of Domain-Driven Design
• Experience with Elixir (whether in a production environment or from pet projects)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes administration and configuration
• Understanding of system administration in Linux environments
• An interest in mobile and web technologies

Technologies and platforms actively using

• Elixir (+ Phoenix, Broadway)
  
• Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Google PubSub, OpenTelemetry
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions + ArgoCD
• Platforms: Github, Linear, DataDog, Google Cloud, Cloudflare

Technologies and platforms we’re using but moving away from

• Ruby (+ Rails)
• Kafka, Cassandra, Redis

• The opportunity to build a whole new app from scratch using the latest technologies
• Truly get to experience working in a flexible, mindful and international team who are driven to improve the quality of lives through mindfulness
• Mindful, supportive, and safe environment for individuals to grow professionally and personally
• Innovation day: Dedicate a day every 2 weeks in learning and innovating by experimenting with latest technologies
• Regular workshops and team-building events (remote and on-site)
• Learning budget (books, conferences, etc.)
• Diverse team from over 10 nationalities
• Workout perk, German-learning perk
• Daily team meditations as part of the work day
• Lifetime access to 7Mind plus
• Snacks, drinks, and fresh fruits at the office
• Flexible working hours (80%, 90%, or 100% weeks)
• Flexible home office policy (post-COVID hybrid office/remote working)