Backend developer at Forza Football

This Opportunity

Forza Football is looking for Elixir developers to join our amazing team in Gothenburg, Sweden.

You will be working on the services that power our mobile apps – from the API that serves millions of clients to the push notification system that keeps our users up-to-date on their favourite football teams and competitions. You will have the benefit of working together with Elixir’s core team members in a small team of talented developers and designers dedicated to building great mobile apps for football fans all over the world. Our platform is built on Elixir and Ruby and at peak hours it handles thousands requests per second and send millions of push notifications.

The Forza Football app keeps users up-to-date on their favourite teams and competitions, the app covers over 500 leagues and competitions in 100 countries. The app has over 10 million installs and over 3 million monthly active users.

Why you want to work at Forza Football

Forza Football is a team of 45 people from 10 different countries, passionately developing Football applications using the latest technology. We're based in the heart of Gothenburg, Sweden. Our motto is that if the team is feeling well, the company is feeling well. That's why we created what we believe is one of the best ways of working where every employee has the autonomy to create a good balance between work and free time. Our award-winning open office environment has different sound levels across three floors including a gaming room, meditation room, library, ping pong table, shuffle board, ball pit and a smallish football pitch. As with everything, we strive to make the work environment and our products even better.

We are dedicated to building high quality mobile apps for football fans all over the world. We are in this game for the long term and we will exist for the next 100 years. With your help, we will be able to reach our goal of 300 million users and cover all matches in the world. Together we can truly democratize football with the power of the fans.

Forza Football is bootstrapped and profitable, which means no interference from investors. We have full control over our company and products, and we only build things we are proud of. We keep things simple, we have no middle managers and we void lengthy company policies and bureaucracy. All the employees become shareholders after 12 months.

We do not hire solely based on experience with a few specific tools or languages or university degrees. Rather, we want to hire developers who are smart, experienced and self-driven and can learn our tools and adapt quickly to change. We are an equal opportunity employer and are excited to expand our team with diverse talents from different backgrounds and cultures.

Benefits

• Your choice of computer and gadget setup
• Flexible work hours
• Stimulating work
• Being part of an autonomous team where your opinion matters
• Five weeks paid vacation, unlimited time off
• Amazing parental leave benefits
• No middle managers or unnecessary bureaucracy
• Breakfast every day
• Friday beers
• Ping-pong, shuffleboard, Futchi, meditation room and VR
• Conference visits with all expenses paid
• 10% of work time dedicated to personal projects and self-improvement
• Become a shareholder
• Relocation support
• Visa sponsorship
• One of the best offices around: http://blog.footballaddicts.com/bestoffice

• Experience with Elixir. Ideally, you have developed Elixir applications for production use but that is not a requirement.
• Knowledge of Ruby. The systems not written in Elixir are written in Ruby and you will need to understand how they work.
• An interest in platforms that run at scale.
• Knowledge about caching strategies, message queues and service-oriented architectures.
• Knowledge of setting up and managing Linux servers for your projects.
• Being a team player and a responsible person with attention to details and strong communication skills.
• Ideally you have experience with deployment tooling, monitoring, alerting, dashboard visualisations, load testing or live system debugging.
• Forza Football operates globally, and many employees are international, so good oral and written skills in English are required.

Forza Football (we are in the process of changing our name) is a team of 40 people from 10 different countries, passionately working with Football applications, using the latest technology, based in the heart of Gothenburg. Our motto is that if the team is feeling well, the company is feeling well. Therefore we created what we believe is one of the best ways of working where every employee has the possibility to set up a good balance between work and free time - you choose where and when to work, even though you'll probably want to be here on our Friday beers. Our open office environment has different sound levels separated by three floors including gaming room, meditation room, library, VR, ping pong, shuffle and a ball pit (yes, it’s true). We even had BBC here filming it all! But as with everything, we aim to make it even better!