Backend Engineer

March 19

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OneFootball

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OneFootball is a media company focused on delivering comprehensive coverage of football (soccer) matches, teams, and competitions. It offers a variety of platforms for football fans to stay connected and informed, including a mobile app available on App Store and Google Play, as well as social media channels like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok. OneFootball provides news, live scores, and other football-related content to engage its audience. The company is committed to enhancing the fan experience through its digital presence.

OTT • streaming • media • advertising • clubs

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2008

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• You will join the Sponsorship Squad within the OneFootball Product and Engineering area. • You will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the backend powering our Android, iOS, and Web applications. • As a part of this squad, you will have the opportunity to shape the platform and impact over 100 million users over the next few years. • The number of years of experience is less relevant than your ability to deliver and lead yourself and your teammates to excellence. • We welcome candidates with 3-7 years of experience. However, we have seen people starting to display this maturity with less than 2 years of experience. • Build and continuously improve services that power world-class experiences for the football Fans • Write high performing, maintainable, well-structured and well-tested code • Lead discussions on how to design systems and improve the technical architecture of our services • Work in a cross-functional squad and collaborate across different squads to solve user problems • Ensure high availability, reliability and performance for our services • Contribute to solving organisation-wide problems when it comes to backend engineering by collaborating with backend as well as platform engineers from different teams • Work in a culture of collaborative and agile problem solving - adopting practices and principles from Extreme Programming and Continuous Delivery like mob & pair programming, YAGNI, TDD • Contribute to improving our product development process to continuously raise the bar for product delivery and developer experience • Provide on-call support on a rotational basis

🎯 Requirements

• A strong grasp and fluency with writing code in Go (or a language similar to Go like C, C++ or Java, combined with a willingness and ability to learn and master a new language quickly) • Strong experience building high performing services and APIs • Experience designing and interacting with database schemas - preferably with a SQL database like PostgresSQL • Experience with designing and architecting systems (High Level Design), as well as designing the right code structure (Low Level Design) • Curiosity, a collaborative mindset and strong problem solving skills • The ability to understand the user problem at hand and propose solutions based on all trade-offs involved • Familiarity with the latest best practices related to writing code, building and designing systems as well as delivering software • Experience with containerisation technologies like Kubernetes and IAC tools like Terraform • Experience or familiarity with NodeJs, Python, Machine Learning/NLP/AI

🏖️ Benefits

• Vacation Days : 25 days, plus 1 extra day each calendar year (up to 5) + your birthday off • Personal Days : 5 "OneFootball Days"—take time off whenever you need, no questions asked! • Private Healthcare for you & your family • Daily Meal Allowance —because great work needs great food! • Learning & Development Budget : €600 per year (after probation) to invest in your growth • Mental Health Support via OpenUp—because your well-being matters • Company-Issued MacBook to do your best work! • Remote Work Abroad : Up to 63 days per year working from another EU country and up to 6 weeks outside of the EU.