Senior Back-end Engineer in Bucuresti

DescriptionWhy?Every year, we change the lives of millions of students and leave the world a bit brighter than we found it. This year our websites will receive over 50 million users. Students around the world trust our platforms to find their best matching education. At the same time, we help educators diversify their (international) student population. With your superpowers we will get closer to solving one of the most burning problems on Earth together: make study choices transparent globally! With whom? As a Senior Back-end Engineer at Studyportals, you will be a part of the team that focusses on increasing the quality and user experience of the core of our platforms. Together with your scrum team, and the other engineering teams you will make sure that our platforms are user and value focussed. Fully in line with both our Product and Technical strategy and vision. What will you do? Glad you asked. Within the team you will have three main missions: Improving the overall User Experience and Scalability of our biggest portals; Increasing the user engagement within the core functionality of our platform. You will be elevating the product value throughout the whole site, to increase user engagement, loyalty, and retention with your (technical) expertise; Help us to become more scalable as a platform, by decoupling our dependencies and reducing our time to market. Staying in control of our quality is key! Lets talk tech.Virtually, all our systems have been developed in-house and are following modern quality standards. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS. Our products are powered by VueJS, Node/NPM, TypeScript, Sass, and the necessary technology to ensure fast and user friendly high-traffic websites. We work in a service-oriented architecture, powered by our own RESTful API and AWS. In parallel, we are scaling up our infrastructure, moving towards Docker and our centralized CI/CD tooling. RequirementsWhat do you need? About 5-7 years of experience in Web Development Experience with building applications in JavaScript component-based frameworks. Modern JavaScript, TypeScript, NPM, are a child's play for you in your day-to-day work; Experience developing advanced applications using any object-oriented language, such as PHP, C#, or Java; You have experience with persistent data structures such as MySQL or NoSQL; Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) or any other Cloud Computing Platform (e.g. Azure, Google Cloud Platform), is a clear advantage; Experience in building and optimizing high traffic websites; Experience with (different types of) automated testing, is a clear advantage. BenefitsWhy us? Because An annual personal development budget because personal growth is the KEY; Reimbursement of your work-related travel costs; Possibility to work from abroad twice a year; Competitive salary including a bonus and pension scheme; 0 stinginess in knowledge sharing; Bi-weekly HACKDAY, during which you can freely experiment with new technologies or new projects, which you choose yourself; Employee referral bonuses: an extra chance to work with friends (and earn some extra cash!); An informal, entrepreneurial, international, and flexible atmosphere; The opportunity to help revolutionize the worldwide study-choice market; A company environment that is serious about having fun with almost everything we do, including regular memorable team events and a wide range of games and activities during lunchtime or after work. Interested? Curious?The next step would be applying and being invited for an interview with us within 2 days!Upon application, please attach your professional portfolio (if you have one) along with your motivation letter and CV.Studyportals is committed to safeguarding your privacy and protecting your personal data. For information on how we process the personal data included in your application please see our Privacy Notice for applicants.