Backend Software Engineer, Flowkey
Piano teaching app
Job no longer available
Piano teaching app
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable anyone to achieve the dream of playing a musical instrument.
Role
Who you are
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with proven experience
- Advanced skills in Javascript, GraphQL, and MongoDB
- Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Alibaba Cloud), serverless microservice infrastructure, and asynchronous message queues
- Familiarity with containerized deployments (e.g. ECS, Kubernetes)
- A knack for automated testing
- Eagerness to learn through a feedback culture and share knowledge with the team
- Experience in any particular technology or process is far less important to us than the ability to learn quickly, turn ideas into solid code, and easily ramp up in new areas
Desirable
- Experience with Apollo and/or Meteor
- Knowledge of payment and subscription platforms such as Braintree, App Store, Google Play, etc
- Skills in PostgreSQL or CloudFormation / Terraform
- Familiarity with i18n / localization
- Proficiency with CI, Deployment, and other DevOps / MLOps topics
- Passion for music
- Active interest in contributing to open source
What the job involves
- As a Backend Software Engineer at flowkey, you will work alongside our world-class team on a diverse, modern tech stack. Together, we will create a wide-reaching impact throughout our organization and for millions of users around the world
- Your focus will be to ensure our website and apps perform as they should, performantly, focusing on databases, backend logic, APIs, infrastructure, and servers. You will work alongside our engineering team to establish and maintain efficient development, testing, and release workflows
- Your role is more analytical and numbers based compared to a frontend role, but a keen understanding of the product is also highly beneficial
Application process
- An application for one Engineering position is automatically considered for all others. The details of your future role will be tailored specifically to your individual skillset, experience, knowledge, growth, and eventual ownership of code, features, and projects
Our take
Learning to play a musical instrument is more often than not an ambition for many but the expense and logistics of finding a teacher can be off-putting. Flowkey is an app making it easy for users to learn to play the piano. Alongside growing popularity for e-learning, its extensive library of songs to learn and course collections has put the company at the forefront of its space.
Profitable almost immediately after launch, Flowkey founders took part in Die Höhle der Löwen (similar to a German Shark Tank) and partnered with Yamaha. This gave the company great exposure early in its journey and it quickly became one of the global leaders in the market.
Now priding itself on over 10M users worldwide, Flowkey is set within a growing e-learning market and giving competitors like Simply Piano a run for its money.
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Company benefits
- Flexible working hours: We only schedule a few fixed meetings every week—you're free to arrange the rest of your time in the way that best suits you
- Remote work—and a beautiful office: We’ve found that it makes a difference whether we see each other in person or through a screen. That’s why we’ve put much love into designing our beautiful and spacious office in Berlin. At the same time, we deeply value freedom so we’ve set up our collaboration in a way that enables us to work from anywhere
- Shared success: We distribute part of the company's annual profits among the whole team, on top of a competitive salary. This way everyone shares in our continuous business growth
- Support for your growth: If you want to learn a new language, attend a conference, or pursue other self-development goals, we'll cover the costs—up to €2,500 per year
- Love of music and a piano for your home: Whatever style of music you enjoy, you’re sure to find like-minded people among us. And you’ll get your own piano to play at home
Company HQ
Moabit, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Jonas Gössling
(Co-Founder & CEO)Went from The Technical University in Berlin to co-found Flowkey in 2014.
Med Hassan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Earned bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering at The Technical University in Berlin to co-found Flowkey in 2014.
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