Senior Backend Engineer, Rows
€58.2-72.1k
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API intregratable spreadsheets
Job no longer available
API intregratable spreadsheets
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
€58.2-72.1k
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create tools that make computation accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- At least 6 years of work experience as a software engineer
- Fluent in design patterns and other Computer Science fundamentals
- Fluent in distributed systems fundamentals
- Proficient in the inner workings of the JVM
- Proficient with Java 8 streams and reactive programming
- Very experienced in the design of APIs that implement request-response protocols, i.e. REST, RPC
- Very experienced in deployment tools and strategies
- Skilled in different areas like database handling, task automation, ssh-ing to machines to debug quirky behaviors or hunting for oddities in metrics dashboards.
- Able communicator in English. Portuguese is optional but welcome.
Desirable
- Experienced with Redis and PostgreSQL.
- Knows Kotlin and Python.
- Knows GraphQL.
- Experienced with gRPC and protocol buffers.
- Very experienced with Linux systems and shell scripting.
- Experienced with Infrastructure as Code.
- Experienced with Spinnaker and container technology.
- Aware of Google Cloud services, e.g. GCE, Pub/Sub, DataFlow.
- Able to apply functional programming where needed.
- Open source contributor (Github).
What the job involves
- Your role is to team up with our engineers and build our services.
- Work on our core service handles all the computations originated by the user inputs, user's scheduled jobs, and webhooks
- Work on the edge service that deals with all user-facing queries, authentication, and other responsibilities.
- Maintain our modular integration service for calling 3rd party APIs.
- Evolving or setting up new microservices that deliver new features in a seamless user experience.
- Evolve the scalability and resiliency of our platform and prepare it to deliver low-latency results.
- Discuss different approaches to distributed computing architectures.
Application process
- Interview with Engineering Managers - to validate ways of working and team fit - 1 hour
- Interview with BEs - to validate theoretical and practical knowledge for the role - 1:30 hours
- Interview with Founders - to validate fit with company values - 1 hour
Our take
Rows is offering an alternative spreadsheet option for businesses, with the added benefit of integration with third party APIs. This allows companies to easily draw data from the likes of Stripe, Google Analytics, Amazon, and Twitter.
Rows has made no secret of its aim to unseat Microsoft and Google at the top of the spreadsheet tree with a more up to date, flexible product. In fact, the startup hit the headlines when it paid for two billboards close to the headquarters of each tech giant, which jokingly ridiculed their offerings.
While overtaking the legacy players would no doubt prove tough, particularly given their habit of acquiring competitors, Rows has managed to secure a lot of funding, and won some high-level customers from the likes of Takeaway.com, foodpanda, and Pitch.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2024
$1.4m
LATE VC
May 2024
$9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $35.4m
Company benefits
- Employee equity plan.
- Hybrid - choose to work from our offices in Porto/Berlin or work full-remote (23 countries).
- Choice to work 4 days per week with pro-rated compensation.
- Unlimited unpaid vacation policy.
- More paid vacation if you stay 3 or 5 years.
Company HQ
Bötzowviertel, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Former Business Analysts at McKinsey & Company. Founded and was CEO of online cosmetics store Skin. Co-founded and was Co-CEO of corporate catering platform EatFirst.
Torben Schulz
(COO)Co-founded and was Co-CEO of corporate catering platform EatFirst along with Humberto Ayres Pereira. Before this, worked as a Senior Consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.
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