We are looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to help us shape the future of the time-tracking industry and deliver real value to our customers with both new and improved features.

The salary for this position is €80,000 annually.

You can work from anywhere in the world as long as your main location is between UTC-4 and UTC+8:00.

About the Team:

We are a global team of 100+ awesome people working from over 40 countries around the globe. We hire globally, you work locally—in the heart of London, a beach outside of São Paulo, or a quiet village near Florence, the choice is yours. Every few months we travel to meet up somewhere in the world and spend some quality time together. We place a huge amount of trust in our people, and we measure the outcomes rather than the work itself. Our values fuel our results.

The Role:

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be taking ownership of one or more domains of our product and will work closely with other Backend and Frontend engineers using cutting-edge open-source frameworks to develop highly available RESTful services and back-end systems.

The main technologies you will be working with are Go, PostgreSQL and Google Cloud Infrastructure. Our team meetings can happen between 11:00 and 15:00 UTC. You need to be willing and available to attend these meetings when they happen

Your main responsibilities will be:

• developing, scaling and maintaining some of our backend services including the API, reports and other infrastructure services that manage our product and logistics worldwide
• working with multiple teams day to day to bring more value to Toggl’s users, covering customer-facing web and native applications and public APIs
• designing, breaking down, and completing projects of a medium to large scope with high-level productivity
• looking for technical problems of existing systems/products without guidance and offering solutions
• leading projects with a small group of people, such as hosting weekly meetings, communicating with other partners and stakeholders

About you:

We would love to hear from you if you strive to solve technical problems of high scope and complexity and have long-standing experience programming in Go.

In particular, we are looking for:

• Strong backend engineering experience in Go;
• Significant professional experience with distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and Google Cloud Infrastructure;
• Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation);
• Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems;
• Ability to work cross-teams and improve cross-functional relationships which will facilitate ongoing projects;
• Eagerness to make contributions to improve the engineering team. For example, activities like interviewing, or mentoring;
• Mentor and grow junior engineers;
• Ability to give on-point and actionable feedback to peers;
• Effective communication skills: regularly achieve consensus with peers and clear status updates;
• Collaborate across the company to define, design, build and improve our product;
• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, is required for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment;

Bonus points for:

• Having full-stack experience;
• Experience with data warehouse and analytics systems
• Experiences with Kubernetes at scale
• Experience with system architecture at scale

Benefits:

• Freedom to choose when and how much you work - we only measure results
• 24 days of paid time off a year, plus your local holidays
• In-person meetups for team-building (expenses covered)
• 4-6 weeks paid sabbatical (depending on the tenure)
• The laptop budget up to €2,500 and it renews every 3 years
• €2,000 budget to set up your home office, and an additional €300 every year after 3 years of tenure
• €250 per month for co-working space membership and/or internet service at home
• €4,000 per year contribution to use for training, workshops, and conferences
• €2,000 per year contribution for any equipment or services to improve and/or maintain your physical and mental health
• Support for buying tools you need for doing your best work (even eyeglasses if you need a new pair)