Senior Backend Developer | Fully Remote

About the job

Location: Fully remote, EU timezone (CET +/- 2 hours)
Start date: ASAP
Languages: English is mandatory; French is a plus

We are hiring at Pragmatike to expand our team and drive the growth of our internal projects.

Our focus is on developing cutting-edge solutions in Cloud Computing, Blockchain, and Artificial Intelligence, while fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Joining us means being part of a passionate team where your ideas and skills directly contribute to shaping tomorrow's technologies.

If you're excited about working on ambitious projects in a dynamic and flexible environment, we'd love to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, distributed, server-side software applications and microservices.
• Collaborate within an Agile Scrum team to define and prioritize backlog items, and proactively identify risks and dependencies.
• Create clean and maintainable code solutions.
• Implement remote solutions facilitating peer-to-peer communication.
• Ensure cross-platform functionality and application compatibility.
• Participate actively in the application lifecycle management.
• Optimize solutions for performance and reliability.
• Establish and enhance security measures.
• Enhance code quality by writing unit tests and implementing automation.
• Engage closely with product and design teams to grasp end-user requirements thoroughly.
• Foster collaboration with team members to integrate innovative ideas.
• Develop reusable code libraries.
• Conduct thorough code reviews and provide mentorship to development teams.
• Champion and uphold best engineering practices, maintaining high standards for quality and craftsmanship.

Required qualifications:

• Minimum 5-6 years of experience as a Senior/Lead Backend Developer.
• Hold an MS degree in Computer Science or a closely related technical field.
• Demonstrate technical proficiency in Go/Java technologies.
• Possess extensive understanding of design patterns and multi-threaded programming.
• Have practical knowledge of internet technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, and XML.
• Familiarity with service-oriented designs and methodologies including web services, REST, and JSON.
• Ability to create well-structured RESTful APIs and comprehend their implications on client-side application code.
• Understanding of Agile fundamentals and adherence to the Agile Manifesto.

Preferred qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and container runtimes like Docker.
• Proficiency in using tracing and logging systems for rapid diagnosis of production issues.
• Track record of developing business-critical, large-scale systems with high availability.
• Familiarity with public cloud services, particularly Amazon AWS, Azure, or OVH.
• Exposure to continuous delivery pipelines.