Job Detail

Description

Join the Smallpdf team to develop the first PDF software people actually like. We have over 10 million monthly users who love our product and we are growing fast. With our true passion for design, engineering and business, we want to become the most used and loved PDF software in the world.

We are a team full of passion for engineering, business and creating awesome user experiences. We love open-source and using the latest technologies to scale our distributed application to process millions of files every day. As a backend engineer at Smallpdf, you will not only contribute to our backend but also to our infrastructure and tooling. You will work in the scrum development team that includes experienced and talented backend and frontend engineers and designers.

Our Backend Stack:

• Golang


• AWS


• Docker


• Ansible


• Terraform

Full stack on Stackshare

Responsibilities:

• Develop new features for Smallpdf


• Manage and automate our infrastructure that spans across more than 100 machines


• Analyze and monitor our application to spot problems


• Help designing our architecture

Requirements

• Golang Experience


• Work independently and take responsibility and ownership of your work


• Ability to quickly learn new technologies


• 5+ years of experience with software development


• Good programming skills


• Good knowledge of linux


• Fluent in English (German is useful but not necessary)


• Full-time position


• Permanently based in Zurich (or willing to move)


• Swiss or EU passport holder (or other permit that allows you to work in Switzerland)

Nice to Have:

• Experience with DevOps tools such as
  
  
  
  • Docker
  
  
  • Ansible
  
  
  • Terraform
  
  


• Experience scaling (micro-) webservices to millions of users


• Experience with AWS

Benefits

• Have your impact on fast-growing startup


• Tricky challenges scaling a high-traffic web application


• Help to grow a product that is used and loved by millions of users

By sending your application you allow Smallpdf to handle and store your data.