Senior Backend Engineer (Cyprus)
Job Description
- Work closely with product managers, designers, software engineers, content producers, data experts, and infrastructure teams.
- Provide guidance to team members and lead team-level product and engineering initiatives.
- Influence coding standards and support your team in making critical decisions.
- Advocate for and implement best engineering practices.
- Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of systems owned by your team.
- Drive the building of successful products and/or platforms.
- Possess comprehensive system design skills with proven impact building new and refactoring existing large-scale systems.
- Extensive hands-on experience in backend engineering, with deep expertise in relational and non-relational databases.
- Expertise in AWS infrastructure (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SES, CloudFormation, CloudWatch).
- Proven track record in building efficient, scalable, and reliable backend systems using Python.
- Influence the technical direction of your team and collaborate effectively with adjacent teams.
- Shape and elevate engineering culture, methodologies, and best practices.
- Maximize developer productivity through technical choices and iterative development practices.
- Thrive in ambiguous environments and figure out solutions to complex problems.
- Culture that champions both personal and professional growth
- Empowerment for every team member to inspire and make an impact
- Focus on achieving meaningful outcomes and making a difference
- Opportunity to be part of a movement creating a healthier, happier world
đ Who Are We?
As a global leader in the Health & Fitness industry, weâve crossed over 200 million installs with five life-changing apps, all designed to boost well-being for millions. Our mission? To transform lives through intuitive nutrition trackers, powerful fitness solutions, and personalized wellness journeysâall powered by a diverse team of over 700 passionate professionals with presence across 5 hubs.
Why and why now?
Imagine joining a team where your impact on global health and wellness is felt daily. We strive to be proactive wellness partners for our users, while continually evolving ourselves to push the boundaries of whatâs possible.
What Weâre Looking For
We are seeking a product-minded, impact-driven Senior Backend Engineer with strong experience in Domain Driven Design, cross-functional product development and Developer Productivity. In this role, youâll collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams in the development of our Yoga-Go app. Youâll be an advocate for highly iterative development approaches, data-driven decision-making in your team, fueling our mission to bring health and wellness to millions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with high levels of engagement with product managers, designers, software engineers, content producers, data experts, and infrastructure teams.
- Mentor & lead by example: Provide guidance to team members, lead team level product and engineering initiatives, influence coding standards, support your team in making critical decisions
- Be a champion of Engineering Excellence: Advocate for and implement best engineering practices, foster a learning culture, and influence strategic technical decisions in your team. Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of systems owned by your team
Required Skills:
- Strong product mindset that creates business value: Proven ability to drive the building of successful products and/or platforms used by product teams, working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Domain experts to create value for customers
- Domain Driven Design: comprehensive system design skills with proven impact building new and refactoring existing large-scale systems powering customer-facing products
- Solid technical foundation: Extensive hands-on experience in backend engineering, with deep expertise in both relational and non-relational databases, as well as AWS infrastructure (e.g., Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SES, CloudFormation, CloudWatch).
- Strong Python expertise: Proven track record in building efficient, scalable, and reliable backend systems using Python.
- System-level impact: Track record of influencing the technical direction of your team and of effective collaboration with adjacent teams, with the ability to highlight risks, trade-offs and propose efficient solutions
- Engineering culture excellence and Agent of change: Demonstrated ability to shape and elevate engineering culture, methodologies, and best practices in your team
- Developer productivity: Experienced in maximising developer productivity through the right technical choices, highly iterative development practices to achieve high pace of data-driven experimentation
- End-to-end ownership and dealing with ambiguity: You thrive in ambiguous environments and get excited about figuring out solutions to complex problems, and taking a leading role in executing on them.
Ready to make a transformative impact on global wellness? Join us and help millions of users lead healthier, happier lives!
Candidate journey
âď¸ Recruiter call --> âď¸ Live code review --> âď¸ System Design Interview --> âď¸ Meet the Hiring Manager
⨠Why Youâll Love Being Part of:
- Grow Together: Join a culture that champions both personal and professional growth. Here, youâll thrive as we learn, evolve, and succeed together.
- Lead by Example: No matter your role, your leadership matters. Every team member is empowered to inspire and make an impact.
- Results-Driven: Weâre all about achieving meaningful outcomes. Itâs not just about the effort, but the difference we make every day.
- We Are Well-Makers: Be part of a movement thatâs creating a healthier, happier world. Together, we make well-being a reality!
Check out some of our products
Muscle Booster â https://musclebooster.fitness/
Yoga-Go â https://yoga-go.io/
WalkFit -http://walkfit.pro
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