Backend Developer/ Full Stack

Volumental is a tech company helping millions of shoppers around the world find perfect fitting footwear. In less than five seconds, our 3D scanner and AI-powered recommendations guide shoe shoppers to find the right pair - every time. With customers across the world including New Balance, Bauer, Ecco and XXL, we are on a mission to help 500 million shoe shoppers find perfect fitting footwear by 2025 both in-store and online.

Would you like to join a smaller team where changes can be done quicker and with greater impact? You will be involved in all the necessary steps to create amazing backend functionality. Everything from implementing a data heavy microservice to choosing beautiful icons for buttons in the UIs controlling them. You will be able to influence development decisions that transform product architecture.

What will you do?

Whether a customer is scanning their feet at a store in Japan or trying to find a pair of great fitting jogging footwear online, it’s done through Volumental’s cloud. Cloud collects scan data, delivers 3D representations of your feet to your mailbox, and recommends footwear based on millions of scans and purchases. You will be tasked with improving and extending the functionality of Volumental’s Cloud.

As a backend developer / full-stack on Volumental, you will be part of our Cloud team. You will design and implement new functionality in collaboration with stakeholders from different teams. It can be microservices offering a public API or streamed data processes crunching large amounts of data. You use all available services from our cloud provider to create stable and scalable services, including message brokers, databases, tracing and various hosting solutions. You are able to cross the finish line, from core functionality in a backend service all the way up to an interface; presenting data and interactions with the core functionality.

We want to work with you because you are:

- A self-motivated and collaborative team member
- Open to teaching others and learning new things
- Excited by solving challenging problems
- Keen to work in a caring scale-up environment

We expect you to:

- Have built distributed and scalable backend systems.
- Have experience with cloud platform infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP or Azure).
- Love writing code.
- Have worked with Javascript/Typescript and any framework (e.g., Angular, React, Vuejs).

Bonus - Don’t let these stop you from applying, but if they fit you, please let us know!

- You have at least 2 years of professional experience.
- You are proficient in golang or Python.
- You have hosted workloads in Kubernetes.
- You have experience working with Google Cloud Platform.

COVID-19 Notice:

Our recruitment process normally includes at least one opportunity for a face to face meeting, but in these times we have moved to virtual hiring and onboarding processes to respect social distancing. Should a candidate prefer to meet in person at the final stages of recruitment, we take all necessary precautions to ensure everyone’s safety.

Our entire company has been to a large degree working remotely during this period, and we are confident about maintaining a creative and efficient environment while away from the office! However, as we do hope to return to the office eventually, you will need to relocate to Stockholm for this role.