Senior Backend Engineer Europe remote

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011 it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 300 European companies and 15000 decisionmakers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their businessrelevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors Sherpany is one of the best scaleups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

Tasks

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011 it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 300 European companies and 12000 decisionmakers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors Sherpany is one of the best scaleups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

What you will be doing:

• Developing new features in products REST API and maintaining the existing ones in accordance with the best web security practices
• Optimizing the performance of the application
• Writing and maintaining unit tests
• Taking part in the design process of new features by providing feedback from Backend Engineers perspective

Requirements

What we will love about you:

• Experience with RESTful API design
• Extensive experience developing and deploying web apps with Python/Django
• Ability to debug at all levels of the stack
• Experience with asynchronous processing (were using Celery)
• Strong understanding of SQL especially in the context of performance
• Knowledge of Docker & familiarity with Kubernetes ecosystem and related technologies is a plus

Your mindset:

• you are eager to learn more and not afraid of making mistakes
• you like to ask questions take chances and encourage new approaches and ways of thinking.
• you are a selfstarter with a high level of attention to detail
• you have a getitdone attitude and always aim for the best possible solutions
• you appreciate working in a team with highly motivated and driven people
• comfortable with regular context switches to unblock your team and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• able to stake out short mid and longterm tasks based on a (multi) yearly roadmap and assign appropriate priorities.

Benefits

How you can imagine us:

You are part of a company with people working from everywhere in the world in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome

• In order to maintain your worklife balance we offer flexible working hours home office and/or remoteworking
• Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education trainings etc.
• We work with modern Apple products; every employee receives an own MacBook
• Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a valuecentric cooperation

Our recruiting process:

1. Interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
2. Show us your skills in a Code Challenge
3. Meet our Squad Lead and BE Chapter
4. Meet our VP of Engineering and your potencial future Squad
5. Offer