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Junior Backend Engineer

FERO

FERO

Software Engineering
Madrid, Spain
Posted on Jul 28, 2024

Junior Backend Engineer - FERO

Our team in Spain is currently seeking a Junior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic team. We are looking for talented, self-motivated individuals with a foundational understanding of AWS and a passion for data.

Who We Are?

First let us introduce ourselves, we are FERO and are a VC backed startup building a brand new solution that improves the customer experience when completing checkout and payment journey driving an increase in conversion and increased revenue for our clients.

The Role & Your Responsibilities

Learning and Development: As a Junior Backend Engineer, you will support our team by writing clean, efficient code and assisting in developing backend services.

Collaborate and Grow: Work closely with senior developers on RESTful API initiatives, learning best practices in performance, scalability, and code quality.

Assist in Performance and Scalability: Apply foundational knowledge to help improve system performance and tackle scalability challenges.

Contribute to Quality and Testability: Participate in maintaining the integrity of our codebase through testing and code reviews.

What You Must Bring?

  • At least 2 years of experience as a Backend Developer, with hands-on skills in AWS services and infrastructure.
  • Basic proficiency with Python. Familiarity with Django is a plus.
  • Basic understanding of relational and non-relational databases such as PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
  • Experience working with REST APIs.
  • A willingness to learn and support development and operations tasks.
  • Working Permit in Spain

Desirable Traits

  • Curiosity, resilience, positivity and a passion for continuous learning and growth.
  • Supportive attitude towards colleagues and a collaborative spirit.
  • Good communication skills
  • Willingness to work at a startup

Why Work at FERO?

We are a VC-backed startup, FERO provides competitive pay combined with employee equity (we are all owners!). We have an exquisite/central office for our Tech hub in Madrid and have a very creative and collaborative culture. We offer:

  • Unique greenfield environment to drive change in a global business. What we are doing is brand new which offers exciting challenges to overcome.
  • Joining at this stage in our journey will open up opportunities for exponential growth in professional and personal development.
  • Friendly and supportive colleagues.
  • Hybrid working model: 3 Days office/2 Days WFH.
  • Competitive compensation package and private health insurance that is half sponsored by FERO.

Where to From Here?

Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. First steps are for you to forward an english CV to this advert.