Backend Engineer, Ukio
+ Employee Stock Options Plan
Premium apartment network for remote workers
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Premium apartment network for remote workers
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Employee Stock Options Plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
Ukio’s mission is to empower people to live where they want, when they want by providing them a home wherever they go.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3-5 years as a backend engineer, with hands-on experience in a dynamically typed language (we use Elixir and Phoenix, but similar languages like Python or Ruby are welcome)
- Technical Skills: Proficient with SQL and comfortable in AWS environments. Familiarity with AI or automation tools for boosting productivity is a plus
- Problem-Solver: You have a keen eye for detail, love tackling challenges, and can propose well-reasoned technical solutions
- Collaborator: You communicate ideas clearly to technical and non-technical team members, fostering alignment and teamwork
- Adaptable: You thrive in a fast-paced environment, embrace short feedback loops, and are comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Ownership: You’ve led or contributed significantly to engineering initiatives and take pride in delivering high-quality work
- Language: Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Curious Learner: You’re eager to explore new tools, see AI as an enabler for productivity and innovation, and are driven to stay ahead of the curve
What the job involves
- This is a unique opportunity to see out and work in developing Ukio's products from very early conception to the final stage
- Working 100% remotely you will join a highly skilled, forward-thinking team working in a cross-discipline manner
- As a start-up, and with Ukio’s unique culture you can expect an exciting environment, with a lot of room for innovation, new ideas and suggestions
- You will work on enhancing our platform to boost efficiency for Ukio teams while enabling an outstanding customer experience
- Your contributions will play a key role in streamlining processes and delivering exceptional value to our users
- Build and Innovate: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and deploy features that elevate the Ukio platform
- Drive Automation and Integration: Develop technology that harnesses AI to achieve a high degree of automation and integration, optimizing Ukio’s operations efficiency and enhancing the customer experience
- Ensure Quality: Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews to uphold high standards and best practices
- Solve Problems: Analyze project performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize systems for scalability and reliability, supported by AI-driven insights
- Collaborate and Communicate: Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineers to identify opportunities and propose impactful solutions
- Understand Our Users: Develop empathy for our users’ needs to deliver intuitive solutions that make city living effortless
- Learn and Grow: Stay curious, experiment with new technologies, and contribute ideas to keep our platform innovative
Our take
Renting an apartment abroad can be a complicated and expensive process. Ukio solves this problem by making it easier to lease an apartment in prime city locations.
Ukio was founded by two veterans of Knotel and Airbnb, and the company functions in a similar way to the latter. However, it differentiates itself from Airbnb and other rental sites by focusing on the mid-length leases and fashionable locations typically favoured by professional remote workers. The company has benefited from the increasing number of people looking for flexible short term rentals especially in major international hubs.
Having already expanded into Germany and Portugal, it is using recent investments to enter the French and Italian markets, with longer term goals to establish a presence in the UK and Ireland. It is also building a B2B solution for international businesses to allow them to offer accomodation to their remote employees.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
70% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Bonus Scheme
- Flexible schedule
- Investment in your learning and development
- Employee Stock Options Plan
- A challenging job at one of the fastest growing companies in Europe
- Competitive annual gross salary, to be determined in line with your knowledge and experience
- Private Insurance
- International working environment with many different nationalities
- Work with talented, committed and supportive teammates
- Team events and an amazing internal culture
Company HQ
Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona, CT
Leadership
Stanley Fourteau
(CEO & Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Sales Director at Peixe Urbano, and was Head of Global Growth at Airbnb.
Jeremy Fourteau
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Product Manager at Zynga, and as Director of Product at EA, Headspace and Knotel.
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