Damia Group is an international tech recruitment agency with 3 decades of experience.Our arrival in Portugal, 7 years later, was set on a mission to transform IT recruitment experiences and, through them, achieve better results. We believe in long-term relationships with a transparent and relaxed mindset. In a short period we have reached the hearts of both scale-ups and larger organizations by delivering spot-on curated candidate shortlists, increased job offer acceptance rates and shorter time-to-fill.

Damia handles direct hires on behalf of our clients.

Their empower golfers of all skill levels to perform their best. With over 4.5 million golfers using their application in over 180 countries and thousands of golfers joining every month, this client is one of the most used golf apps in the market.

We've been told that their product is the golfer's best friend. It is a consequence of the passion and smart work they put every day into building the best technology in golf.

They are looking for a skilled and experienced Backend Engineer, keen to help build and maintain high-quality applications that are used by hundreds of thousands of golfers worldwide every month.

What they do:

They build backend and web apps using mainly Ruby on Rails.
Their apps, services and deployments are all containerised using Docker.
They stay updated on the newest engineering trends and technologies, but they only embrace them if they truly add value, not just because they're trendy.
They are passionate about delighting their customers and solving their issues.
They love to build beautiful products that feel easy to use.
They take the time to deliver great work rather than half-assing MVPs.
They focus a lot on security, scalability, performance, automation and cost.

What you'll do:

Integrate their server team and focus on evolving and maintaining of web applications, services and APIs.
Explore, analyse and adopt new technologies.
Work on solving non-trivial problems, from big data migrations to improving the worldwide performance of their applications.
Build reliable software able to support millions of users.
Apply development best practices with an emphasis on code scalability and ease of maintenance.
Work with a supportive team.
Be a team player.

You have been building and maintaining web applications and APIs with a fair amount of users and data for over 6 years.
You are fully capable of taking substantial features & products from concept to shipping reasonably by yourself.
You are a responsible individual, capable of managing and organising your work.
You have a strong knowledge of the Ruby-on-Rails framework and SQL databases (they mostly use PostgreSQL).
You're comfortable collaborating with the team on building and maintaining user interfaces
You have a track record of dealing with non-trivial problems in domains such as security, search, caching and performance.
You are passionate about distributed systems.
You enjoy focusing on guaranteeing reliability, security, scalability and performance of the applications you work on.
You appreciate and prioritise simple solutions.
You don't need to be a superhero and know everything.
You don't need to play golf or even know what golf is about (although it helps a lot).

An annual gross salary between €55K and €68K (depending on your experience).
A year-end bonus that can be up to 25% of the annual gross salary.
A great working environment within a small but growing team of nearly 40, that cares about your health and growth.
The opportunity to have a real impact in shaping the path of a startup with proven traction as it evolves to its next stage of maturity.
A safe and respectful work environment that values the actual work you deliver rather than how much time you spend at the "office".
The opportunity to work where and when you'd like. This is a fully remote job, but they also have an office in Lisbon and Oporto, if you enjoy a change of scenery.
Gym membership and health insurance.
Play golf while on the job (because who wouldn't enjoy that?!).