Our offer

At BetterDoc, you will work to deliver value, not to fulfil a spec. We value curiosity, the will to learn and the drive to deliver great software. We look for people that want to see their influence on what was created and who are proud of their craft.

As a Developer at BetterDoc, you will be part of small project teams. These cross-functional teams delivering value in focused, self-managed projects.

In every project team we have people working remotely, making written communication very important. You should be able to express proposals and decisions, as well as task descriptions in written form. Team language is english, being able to communicate in german is a plus.

At BetterDoc, a developer should

• write code in a sustainable way;
• understand and follow architectural guidelines;
• be proficient in one or more programming language;
• be able to learn a new language;
• work with subject matter experts for specific questions;
• review pull request of other team members;
• be able to work within all steps of the development process; and
• help juniors and help improve their coding skills.

Remote work, your location 

We support fully remote work, in addition to having office space dedicated for developers that want to work from the office in Cologne, Germany.

Although we support fully remote work, we cannot allow developers to work from non-EU countries, for legal reasons.

Please be aware that if you do not live in a country belonging to EU or are planning to move to the EU, we cannot follow up on your application.

Our Next Backend Engineer
As Knotch’s next Senior Backend Engineer, you will work alongside a team of backend engineers on various internal and external APIs. You’ll construct and maintain these APIs as part of new features and new products, developed within an agile framework and in an environment that believes in automated testing and a strong CI/CD pipeline. Your empathy and relentlessness are key traits that will help you remain resilient and connected to your team in a fast-paced environment like ours. Your work will directly impact our products and help Knotch scale as a company. You will work closely every day with your Backend API Team and report directly to our Lead Backend Engineer, Haiz Oppenheimer.

How you'll add value to Knotch

• Write elegant and expressive Elixir and Ruby for critical backend services and APIs.
• Build and ship product features to deliver outstanding value to customers.
• Coordinate with members of the Front-end, Data, and QA teams to stage and release complex technical initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve our application performance and optimize database queries and modeling.
• Re-architect legacy systems and collaborate with the whole API team to plan and execute initiatives to improve application quality.
• Review other engineers’ pull requests and provide constructive technical feedback, guidance, and mentoring as appropriate.
• Write strategic unit and integration tests to improve overall test coverage.

About you

• You have 4+ years experience writing production web applications, preferably with experience in Elixir and/or Ruby.
• You are team-oriented, and you value empathetic communication and collaboration.
• You have designed APIs according to proper RESTful conventions. Experience with GraphQL is a plus.
• You have written SQL with aggregate functions and also worked with an ORM such as ActiveRecord or Sequel.
• You appreciate the merits of both object-oriented and functional programming, and approach architecture from a practical solution-oriented perspective.
• You hold strong but flexible opinions about best practices in software engineering, and believe in investing time and energy into continuous improvement.
• You have built complex web applications and leveraged patterns beyond simple models, views, and controllers.
• You ask a lot of questions and value exploring healthy creative tensions within an organization, knowing it improves outcomes. You are comfortable working in close proximity to unanswered questions.

We also appreciate but don't require

• Elixir & Phoenix
• Cloud architectures, particularly in AWS.
• Docker and containerization
• Devops and CI/CD pipelines
• Redis and Sidekiq
• GraphQL
• Event-driven architecture

Our offer

At BetterDoc, you will work to deliver value, not to fulfil a spec. We value curiosity, the will to learn and the drive to deliver great software. We look for people that want to see their influence on what was created and who are proud of their craft.

As a Senior Developer at BetterDoc, you will be part of small project teams. These cross-functional teams delivering value in focused, self-managed projects.

In almost every project team we have people working remotely, making written communication very important. You should be able to express proposals and decisions, as well as task descriptions in written form. Team language is english, being able to communicate in german is a plus.

At BetterDoc, a Senior developer should

• be able to translate feature needs into code tasks;
• write code in a sustainable way;
• understand, propose and contribute to architectural decisions;
• be proficient in one or more programming language;
• be able to learn a new language quickly;
• be able to understand domains of subject matter teams;
• be able to own one or several systems that group multiple services;
• know and be able to work within all steps of the development process; and
• help juniors and help improve their coding skills.

We are looking for Full-Stack Developers with an epic passion for technology, an obsession for quality. As part of the  Mindvalley team, you will be working with a team of smart, friendly, and dedicated Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to contribute to the most advanced Tech projects in Mindvalley and streamline, scale and optimize our products and platforms.

The Role

We are looking for an analytical, results-driven Full-Stack Developer who will work with team members to troubleshoot and improve current applications and processes. The Full-Stack Developer will use his or her understanding of programming languages and tools to analyze current codes and industry developments, formulate more efficient processes, solve problems, and create a more seamless experience for users. You should have excellent communication and project management skills.

To succeed as a Full-Stack Developer, you should be focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating a better end-user experience. You should be knowledgeable, collaborative, and motivated.

As a Full-Stack Developer in Mindvalley you can expect to grow with an international team and work with state of the art tools and techniques. You will have the opportunity to work with different technologies and bring your ideas to the table to constantly improve the way we do things.

You must have a solution oriented mindset and you are always looking for the absolute best solutions to solve problems, and are even more productive in a collaborative team environment. In this role it's essential to be a team player - we succeed because we catch and support each other in our work. In your day to day operations you must appreciate receiving feedback on your work and at the same time you will be comfortable assisting your teammates by doing the same in the form of code reviews, general feedback and structured sharing.

Responsibilities

• Working with our preferred technology stack (Primarily Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails).
• Develop, scale, and optimize amazing GraphQL & RESTful APIs.
• Experience with designing and optimizing PostgreSQL databases. Graph database (Neo4j) experience is bonus
• Be part of our backend service teams supporting web and mobile clients.
• Build front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks (Vue.js, React, TypeScript).
• Participate in the design, architecture, and delivery of new features in a collaborative agile/scrum environment.
• Experience with testing frameworks and end to end testing
• DevOps experience is an added advantage

Requirements

• A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, distributed systems, algorithms and software design
• Passionate about clean code architecture and software craftsmanship
• Experience with modern web frameworks and API development (Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, React, Vue.js)
• Experience with Git and GitHub or similar
• A strong grasp and experience with relational databases; including PostgreSQL, MySQL  (Graph Databases a bonus)
• Experience with background job processing (Oban, Sidekiq etc)
• Experience with Message Queues (Pubsub, Kafka etc)
• Comfortable working in the terminal
• Proficiency within an editor of your choice
• Experience with testing frameworks such as ExUnit, RSpec, Jest, Jasmine or equivalent
• Experience working with profiling tools
• Knowledge and familiarity with caching strategies, design patterns, cloud architecture  and tools.
• Consuming and integrating with third party APIs

Nice to have:

• Elixir, building GraphQL APIs (Absinthe), GraphQL schema stitching & subscriptions, GCP, Kubernetes, JavaScript SSR, contribution to open source software
• Experience with CI/CD toolsets and DevOps an added advantage
• Experience working at startups 
• Interest in EdTech

On the personal side:

• You are excellent in communication, teamwork and also independent contributions;
• You have a strong attention to detail and flexibility of adapting to fast changes;
• You work well under pressure developing key features for high volume business critical systems;
• You are available to start remotely within 1-2 months.