Backend Engineer

Location:  Athens

As of now, we are looking for a highly motivated Backend Engineer for one of our Rider teams. 

The Rider team at FREENOW is focused on developing an innovative portfolio of mobility solutions tailored to the needs of millions of customers across Europe. 

Be ready to play a role in a multinational, diverse, highly motivated and collaborative team who strives for excellence and likes to have fun, while building great features and products.


YOUR DAILY ADVENTURES WILL INCLUDE:

  • Develop impactful solutions: Design and implement significant solutions from scratch, supporting your technical decisions with sound reasoning and data-driven evidence.
  • Collaborate effectively: Work closely with stakeholders to understand business scenarios, clarify requirements, and deliver timely solutions within scope.
  • Design for simplicity: Create straightforward solutions that are easy to test, debug, and maintain, with logical and user-friendly APIs.
  • Navigate and enhance existing code: Work proficiently within a large codebase, effectively debugging and improving existing code.
  • Share knowledge and grow: Actively participate in chapter learning sessions, sharing your expertise and contributing to the team's collective knowledge.
  • Prioritize customer impact: Align your work with user needs, business goals, and team objectives to maximize customer impact.
  • Deliver consistently: Regularly ship production-ready code with minimal management oversight.
  • Monitor and respond: Build dashboards to track and alert on application and feature-specific metrics, and participate in incident response.
  • Lead and take ownership: Spearhead projects within your team, demonstrating leadership and initiative.

 

Our Techstack: Kotlin | Spring | PostgreSQL | AWS | Docker | Git | Kafka & more


TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE:

  • Proven experience in Spring development
  • A strong sense of ownership for your team's microservices
  • Commitment to quality
  • Hands-on experience with the following technologies:
    • Java & Kotlin
    • Spring / Spring Boot
    • Kubernetes & Docker
    • Microservices
    • SQL / Postgres
    • MongoDB
    • AWS

What We Offer

  • End-to-End Ownership - You code, you ship, you own the features you deliver
  • Culture of Improvement - Code improvement and refactoring are integral to our development process; you'll continuously enhance our microservices architecture
  • Focus on Quality Assurance - We prioritize the quality of our services through a strong emphasis on test automation integrated into our CI/CD tooling
  • Collaborative Environment - Knowledge sharing and mentorship are fundamental to our teamwork
  • Continuous Learning - Opportunities to continuously learn and share your knowledge with your peers

BENEFITS & PERKS IN A NUTSHELL:

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • LinkedIn Learning
  • Sabbatical & special leave policies
  • WeRoad partnership
  • Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
  • Short term EU work policy
  • Mobility Credit
  • Health Insurance
  • Employee assistance program
 

 


DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION:

FREE NOW is an equal opportunity employer and we consider qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or age.
We want you to grow and evolve, bring your true self to work


SEE WHAT OUR AWESOME COLLEAGUES SAY ABOUT US:

               


FREENOW is Europe's top multi-mobility app, offering taxis, private cars, eBikes, and eScooters in 100+ cities. Revolutionizing urban mobility with integrated services for efficient and sustainable transportation.

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