We are looking for a passionate Senior Backend Engineer to help us build and maintain Toggl Plan. If you are a great engineer, work well in cross-functional teams, and are eager to learn and work with Elixir, we would like to hear from you!
The gross annual salary for the role is 80,000 EUR plus some great benefits.
You can work from anywhere in the world as long as your main location is between UTC-4 and UTC+8:00.
The role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will collaborate as an integral part of our team to bring new features to life by crafting clean, well-structured, and dependable code. Additionally, you will actively participate in code reviews, ensuring code quality.
Our team and company meetings are scheduled between 11:00 and 16:00 UTC. Your availability and commitment to participate in these sessions are essential for effective collaboration and team alignment.
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Build and maintain our backend applications and infrastructure of Toggl Plan (Elixir / PostgreSQL / AWS, migrating to GCP)
- Optimize the performance and stability of our product
- Experiment with the new technologies to improve our product and experience as a team
- Collaborate with product managers, designers and FE developers
Does this sound like you?
We would love to hear from you if you have strong experience in backend development and can lead major development projects.
In particular, we are looking for:
- Proficiency in all stages of web application development (design, implementation, testing)
- Significant experience with back-end development
- Experience with PostgreSQL, Git and Unix
- Experience with GCP/AWS, Docker, Ansible and Terraform is a plus
- Experience with a backend language and enthusiasm about exploring and embracing Elixir. While prior knowledge of Elixir is a big plus, it is not a strict requirement
- A comfort level with working within a fully remote team, displaying excellent written communication skills, and a genuine enthusiasm for active collaboration with other remote team members
- A commitment to contributing to a company culture that values respect, openness, transparency, multiculturalism, and continuous evolution
- Familiarity with asynchronous work processes, as we typically hold only three meetings per week, expecting the remainder of tasks to be executed independently, marked by a strong sense of ownership
- Willingness to travel for participation in our company meetups