Principal Back-end Engineer | GPS in Brãila

At Gympass (Permanent), in Lisbon, PortugalSalary: €75.000 - €81.000Expires at: 2023-04-08Remote policy: Full remote GET TO KNOW USWe simplify wellness so you can find everything in one place. Gympass is a corporate wellness platform that connects you to thousands of fitness & wellness partners, all with one simple monthly membership. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in NYC, we have a growing global team in 11 offices around the world. At Gympass, you not only have the opportunity to build a career in a fast-paced global environment - but you'll make wellbeing universal, so everyone can be happy and healthy.WHAT MAKES A GYMPASSER?We are passionate about our mission! Whatever your job title is, here you can make a global impact and change people’s lives. At Gympass, we collaborate, set high achievable goal expectations, and focus on the end result.  It's a challenging, evolving environment that allows you to learn and grow. You will face a disruptive and emerging business model that will push you in several areas, with no boundaries for creation and collaboration.THE OPPORTUNITY We’re looking for a talented Principal Back-end Engineer to join our GPS (Tagus team) to work in Lisbon (Remote)!At the Tagus team, we build the heart of the Gympass business model. Our mission is to help Gympass build a truly scalable platform to support dozens of millions of active users, clients, and partners around the world with high availability while being flexible and extensible to incorporate new business models.We have many important challenges such as building a system that gives us the flexibility to have different commercial conditions for different users in different contexts. Also, we are responsible for some critical and important flows within our business model, such as clients' and users' subscriptions as well as providing data to the ecosystem as the source of truth of these entities.When it comes to technical challenges, our team works to provide highly scalable solutions, handling large volumes of data and focusing on high availability. Considering our services central role, you’re going to have the opportunity to help drive architecture decisions that impact our whole microservices ecosystem and you will have opportunities to develop both leadership and technical skills, depending on your career aspiration and abilities.YOUR IMPACTParticipate in the development of some of the most critical and challenging services in our ecosystem, seeking to build long-term and sustainable solutions;Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve services focusing on performance, scalability, and resilience;Build Integration with 3rd party API and tools;Support existing systems looking to enhance functionality, increase scale, and transform in new ways to meet our product demands;Work in a collaborative and agile environment that prioritizes people over process and is laser-focused on productivity;Work with cutting-edge technologies and edge cases on a global scale. Main requirements WHO YOU AREAn engineer with a bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent professional experience;Used to work in architecting large-scale multi-tier web applications;Used to work in designing and developing complex modern web applications;Used to work in Cloud-based architectures (AWS / GCP);Used to work in developing RESTful web services collaborating with front-end teams to create mocks, define payloads and follow the HTTP best practices;Used to work in applying computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, and complexity analysis;Used to work in working with SQL/NoSQL technology such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB understanding common use cases and performance pitfallsYou're expected to perform management tasks such as mentoring, facilitating and conducting regular one-on-ones with the members of your team, making sure that they are constantly challenged, engaged, and improving their skills;Proficient in one or more programming languages (Java/Ruby/Go/C++/etc.). Golang will be considered a plus;Communication skills to work with multidisciplinary teams located in several countries with different cultures;You need to be able to articulate ideas clearly when speaking to groups in English Benefits & PerksWHAT WE OFFER YOUWe're a wellness company that is committed to the well-being of our employees. Our benefits include:WELLNESS: Health and dental insurance  GYMPASS DISCOUNT: We believe in our mission and encourage our employees and their families to find their passion too. PAID TIME OFF: We know how important it is that our employees take time away from work to recharge.PAID PARENTAL LEAVE: Welcoming a new child is one of the most special moments in your life and we want our employees to take the time to be present and enjoy their growing family.CAREER GROWTH: Outstanding opportunities for personal and career growth. That means we maintain a growth mindset in everything we do and invest deeply in employee development.  CULTURE: An exciting and supportive atmosphere with ambitious people from around the world! FLEXIBLE SCHEDULE: We give our employees some flexibility to adjust their working hours, letting them adjust their starting time within a range of 3 hours.