Backend Engineer at Damia Group Portugal

Job Description

Damia Group is an international tech recruitment agency with 3 decades of experience.Our arrival in Portugal, 7 years later, was set on a mission to transform IT recruitment experiences and, through them, achieve better results. We believe in long-term relationships with a transparent and relaxed mindset. In a short period we have reached the hearts of both scale-ups and larger organizations by delivering spot-on curated candidate shortlists, increased job offer acceptance rates and shorter time-to-fill.

Damia handles direct hires on behalf of our clients.

Their empower golfers of all skill levels to perform their best. With over 4.5 million golfers using their application in over 180 countries and thousands of golfers joining every month, this client is one of the most used golf apps in the market.

We've been told that their product is the golfer's best friend. It is a consequence of the passion and smart work they put every day into building the best technology in golf.

They are looking for a skilled and experienced Backend Engineer, keen to help build and maintain high-quality applications that are used by hundreds of thousands of golfers worldwide every month.

What they do:

They build backend and web apps using mainly Ruby on Rails.
Their apps, services and deployments are all containerised using Docker.
They stay updated on the newest engineering trends and technologies, but they only embrace them if they truly add value, not just because they're trendy.
They are passionate about delighting their customers and solving their issues.
They love to build beautiful products that feel easy to use.
They take the time to deliver great work rather than half-assing MVPs.
They focus a lot on security, scalability, performance, automation and cost.

What you'll do:

Integrate their server team and focus on evolving and maintaining of web applications, services and APIs.
Explore, analyse and adopt new technologies.
Work on solving non-trivial problems, from big data migrations to improving the worldwide performance of their applications.
Build reliable software able to support millions of users.
Apply development best practices with an emphasis on code scalability and ease of maintenance.
Work with a supportive team.
Be a team player.