H

Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Happening
Full-time
On-site
Croatia
Backend Development

Who we are:

At Happening, we work with technology that handles serious scale on par with the Googles, Netflixes, and Amazons of the world.

Driven by user needs, we are changing the whole experience of a particular human activity.

If you ever wanted to see how software can handle billions of transactions per year - why not join us?

Team - At Content Platform, we are passionate about simplifying complex data flows to empower our sports teams, end-users, and traders with seamless data access. We are on a mission to create a single source of truth for all sports data, striving zero-latency data flow and operational excellence. We are seeking a  Backend developers  to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be responsible for simplifying and breaking down data complexity so that stakeholders across the company can easily access and manage sports data. You will work to unify multiple data feeds and pipelines into a single integration point, connecting data streams in one cohesive pipeline

What you’ll be doing:

  • Collaborating closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions.
  • Enhancing the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
  • Enhancing system automation (scale, resiliency, deployment)
  • Maintaining, enhancing and creating common platform components and libs (AWS, Go, Python, Erlang, Kafka)
  • Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders from the wider organization to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the platform
  • Building on our CloudNative platform, enabling more use of AWS technology to aid in speeding up delivery, scale, and resiliency
  • Building on our observability tooling and infrastructure to better understand the capabilities of our systems
  • Growing the engineering community, building on the existing process and practices
  • Leading initiatives and tasks and driving them to completion
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance team productivity and efficiency.

We're looking for someone who:

  • Strong experience in a large scale production environment.
  • Has experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in any object-oriented or Functional language
  • A willingness to learn new technologies (we are working with Golang, Python, Erlang)
  • A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment
  • A passion for working in the cloud and automation
  • Experience working with distributed systems
  • Experience building and improving upon observability
  • A passion for creating user-centric, data driven solutions

Bonus points for:

  • Experience in AWS (Cloudformation, MSK, S3, Cognito etc..)
  • An interest in Functional Programming
  • Knowledge of Kafka
  • Front end development experience in React/Vue.js

Â