Senior SW Engineer

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Prague 9, CZ  Programmer Full time job Education is not essential

Bookbot is a re-commerce platform where over 10 million books have already changed hands. Every day, we send around 22,000 books to new homes and gain thousands of new customers — figures we plan to double within this year. We're among the top 10 fastest-growing tech startups in the CEE region and have won the Heureka ShopRoku award for 2021, 2022, and 2023.

We operate in four European markets (CZ, SK, AT, and DE) and have big plans, especially in Germany. We aim to make second-hand books the new European standard. €4 million from our latest funding round will help us on this journey. 

Sounds exciting? Take a look at the position and join us in conquering the European book market!

We are looking for a Skilled Software Engineer

Are you an experienced engineer who wants to develop new features and improve existing ones? Also get involved in interesting projects and make an impact on a very interesting business? Are you not afraid to take initiative and help solve all sorts of tasks? Then you are our person.

What you´ll be doing:

  • Developing the backend of new features of the re-commerce portal.
  • The responsibility of existing products and helping to sort the tasks according to relevance, move them forward and close them successfully.
  • Opportunity to help our CTO, David, solve various knotty tasks in Bookbot and gradually take ownership from him and solve/resolve them.
  • You'll be communicating across teams in IT as well as the company to find the best solution for the task at hand.
  • Developers at our company are not code monkeys - discussion and never-ending insights are important to us.
  • We're not afraid to rethink things and take a different approach in the course of our work.
  • Participate with us in solution proposals, priorities and code reviews!

Your profile looks ideally like this:

  • Experienced Fullstack Engineer with focus on BE development.
  • You enjoy communicating & solving issues across teams. But at the same time, you can listen and have a collaborative discussion on how to approach things.
  • You're not afraid to be proactive, ask questions and enjoy gaining know how across teams so you can then work independently to help crack all sorts of tasks and situations.
  • You know how to carry the weight of your decisions, even when it turns out to be wrong.
  • You're a lover of short-term stress and can get things done.

TechStack:

  • Languages & Frameworks: Typescript (Next.js + AdonisJS), MySQL, Redis, Manticore, Kafka.
  • Infrastructure: We run everything on Kubernetes in AWS.
  • Legacy parts of the system are technologically mixed (mainly PHP), but when we interfere with them, we gradually rewrite them into Typescript.

How we work:

  • We run two-week sprints and review our backlog twice a week.
  • Once a week we meet for Backend Tech and Frontend Tech meetings with rest of the devs. Every two weeks, we dive into technical discussions for new features.
  • We’re honest, direct, and like to laugh at even the most politically incorrect jokes.
  • Our office is at Kolbenova metro station, and while you can work from home occasionally, Wednesdays are mandatory in-office days for the entire team.
  • Our whole development team currently consists of 16 members (15 developers + CTO).
  • We discuss technology challenges at tech meetups, and regularly hold evangelistic meetups on technology and programming approaches.

What we offer:

  • Work with awesome people like our internal systems guru Simon, and CTO David. The team is full of good vibes, and sometimes we go for a beer or rock climbing.
  • Listen to a podcast with David (CTO) & Simon to get an even better understanding of how our development team works and what we’re currently tackling.
  • We build everything in-house, meaning there’s a wide variety of problems to solve and endless opportunities to learn and innovate.
  • You’ll see the results of your work immediately—when we rework or optimize a process, it typically has visible positive effects, not just on the website but also in the warehouse, shipping, customer support, or intake. If something goes wrong, you'll hear about it within minutes!
  • An amazing opportunity to have a significant impact on the future of Bookbot and to grow with us exponentially.
  • Multisport card, employee discounts on buying and selling books, plus partner discounts.
  • One extra week of vacation after one year of cooperation, two extra weeks after two years.
  • Possibility to gain ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) and have a financial stake in the company’s success.
  • An informal environment and a pragmatic approach to getting things done.