Backend Developer

Our start-up, mi.tv, is currently looking for a backend software developer to join our team in Stockholm. Your responsibility will be to architecture, build and ensure uptime for our world-class product that has the potential to reach tens of millions of customer in Latin America.

Together with an awesome team of highly skilled engineers you will continue building our great team, our culture and our product. Working with a Greenfield project, you will experience the pace and liberty that comes with working with a data driven startup. You will get a once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of a digital boom in Latin America, to have a first hand experience as millions of people get connected in the emerging markets. You will be working with a state of the art Web Backend System, cloud hosted and scaled to meet millions of users.

THE WAY WE WORK

You need to have a strong sense of responsibility and be an inspiration for your colleagues, both younger and more senior. You should have the ability to take decisions, initiatives and getting things done. You should have strong analytical skills and be able to draw conclusion without a full set of data and you should be able to think outside the box and have an open mind to innovation and new solutions. You’re a team player with the ability to describe complex problems to others, you listen and involve others in discussions and you have the ability to tailor technical information to different audiences. You should have worked with customer service related tasks. We also think you have a university degree or a strong work based experience.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in design + implementation + testing and release
• Define requirements and approaches
• Write code to scale to millions of users, terabytes of data
• Understand and address latency, performance, and security issues with cloud development

QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree or similar work based experience
• Solid English and basic Spanish Language or Swedish Language
• Knowledge of shell scripting, Python and functional languages is a plus
• Knowledge of Amazon Cloud Services such as DynamoDB and EC2 is a huge plus

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years experience in internet related business
• Experience in personally handling customer relationships related work tasks
• Previous experience in fast paced development and continuous delivery
• Experience of handling teams, setting goals and following up Worked with building customer facing products