Back End Developer

 (4+ years exp)
$50k – $80k • 0.5% – 0.9%
Published: 2 days ago

Job Location

Job Type

Full Time

Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

Remote Work Policy

Onsite or remote

Hires remotely in

Preferred Timezones

Central European Time, Eastern European Time

Relocation

Allowed

Skills

Python
Redis
Image Processing
Ffmpeg
Nginx
Tornado
HTML/CSS/Javascript
Apache Solr
React.js
Python/Django/Flask
DevOps/Linux/Docker/Jenkins/Chef/Puppet/Git

The Role

Skills & Experience
Job titles: Back End
Experience level: Mid, Senior, Lead
Tech stack used: Tornado, Redis, Celery, MySQL, AWS, Docker
Primary skills we consider: Python, SQL, AWS, APIs, Git
Secondary skills we consider: JavaScript, Go, React, Ansible, Linux

Logistics
Base salary: £30,000 - £50,000 · 0.5% - 0.9% Equity
Employment type: Permanent
Remote working: Remote (~ quarterly office visits)
Remote locations: United Kingdom
Working Timezones: (UTC) London +/- 3 hours
Visa sponsorship: Not available

FileSpin’s mission is to bring excellence and joy to the enterprise. We are a fully remote team spread across the UK and Europe. We bootstrapped in a garage (true story) and have been profitable from day one. We are scaling-up – not too quickly and not too slowly– organically without losing our core values.
We value our independence (no investors, for example) and uncompromising professional excellence. We would rate those qualities highly in you if you choose to make us part of your professional life.
We are a remote-first company.

About the Job:

We are remote-first company. For this role, you'll need to be able to work for a UK employer as per UK government laws.

Location: Remote with occasional travel to London and elsewhere.
We’re looking for a Backend Developer to join us and be on our ambitious growth journey. As a backend developer. You’ll have the opportunity to work in areas solving awesome technical challenges such as high-performance backend design and development, bleeding-edge Image and Video processing, creating ML pipelines, and more.
You’ll join the technical team and work on product offerings for companies of all sizes that affect millions of end users.
Our 2022 roadmap focuses on: scaling the product to reach an order of magnitude higher media processing volume, ML-based and other amazing features that delight our customers and tuning the stack for high-performance.

Role activities and responsibilities:
Effectively contribute to FileSpin with the development of new and innovative features
Work on our core API services
Write tested and maintainable code following coding standards and best practices
Contribute to the improvement of integration and internal tools
Maintain existing features

Essential skills and experience:
Excellent Python skills, using Python for web/backend services
Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, reactjs HTML5, and CSS3
Experience with SQL
Experience with AWS
Experience with web frameworks such as Tornado, Flask or Django
Knowledge of Git, CI/CD, DevOps tools
Values simple and effective solutions over complex and clever solutions
familiarity and comfort with the remote working

“Nice to have” but not essential:
Knowledge of Machine Learning and associated tools
Familiarity with video encoding using ffmpeg, Image processing (GraphicsMagick, PIL)
Familiarity with Web/Proxy servers (nginx/Apache)
Knowledge of SaaS stacks such as task queues, search engines, cache servers

What you’ll get at FileSpin:
Salary: £30,000-£50,000k (a bit over or under, depending)
Equity options
Holidays
Flexible working hours
Paid sick leave
Budget for your remote work setup
Pension
Maternity & Paternity Leave:
Income protection
Life Insurance

The intangibles:
Culture that values your contribution and autonomy
Continuous Learning
Entrepreneurial workplace, we value creativity and innovation

Company Benefits
Fully Remote/Hybrid
Equity options
Holidays
Flexible working hours
Paid sick leave
Budget for your remote work setup
Pension
Maternity&Paternity Leave:
Income protection
Life Insurance

Interview Process
Two rounds of technical interview and one round of HR. We will not ask you to code in a whiteboard. We may suggest a take-home coding exercise that we will use as a basis for a second technical interview. We appreciate take-home coding exercise will take time -- we promise to make it a rewarding exercise on its own merit.

More about FileSpin.io

Founders

Selva Ganesan
Founder • 3 years
London
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