Senior Backend Engineer, Ukio
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Premium apartment network for remote workers
Job no longer available
Premium apartment network for remote workers
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
Ukio’s mission is to empower people to live where they want, when they want by providing them a home wherever they go.
Role
Who you are
- 5-10 years working experience in a professional programming position
- Experience with any dynamic typed language
- SQL is a basic tool in your toolset and you feel comfortable using it
- Understand the importance of testing and the tradeoffs between different types of testing
- Attention to detail and problem-solving ability
- Ability to analyze data and communicate ideas clearly so the whole team, not only engineers, can be in the loop
- Ability to independently learn new technologies
- Proven ownership of an engineering initiative
- You’re used to short feedback loops, so you deliver small and fast features
- Fluent English is required
- Flexible, resilient and content with ambiguity and changes
- Confident with working in cross-functional teams
- Comfortable performing in a start-up environment
- Bonus points if you have experience with AWS and with Elixir
What the job involves
- You will work on developing and maintaining the company's main commercial platform, our website, which is being refactored entirely before we can continue adding more features
- You’ll have a significant impact in helping us bring more users to our website and fine-tune our conversion funnel
- Responsible for the end-to-end software development process, working closely with the team to scope, design, and deploy innovative new features
- Code review and support high quality standards, ensuring best practices are fulfilled and we release only the highest quality products
- Liaise with our product manager and the rest of the team members/leads to identify opportunities for improvement and optimization of existing projects
- Contribute to analysis of projects including performance, diagnosis, and troubleshooting
- Act as an example to others in your team, encouraging and mentoring Junior Engineers in your craft
- Objectively explore multiple approaches and recommend the best technical direction including logic and reasoning
- Empathize with our users to have a deep knowledge of their problems to provide excellent solutions to real problems
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Renting an apartment abroad can be a complicated and expensive process. Ukio solves this problem by making it easier to lease an apartment in prime city locations.
Ukio was founded by two veterans of Knotel and Airbnb, and the company functions in a similar way to the latter. However, it differentiates itself from Airbnb and other rental sites by focusing on the mid-length leases and fashionable locations typically favoured by professional remote workers. The company has benefited from the increasing number of people looking for flexible short term rentals especially in major international hubs.
Having already expanded into Germany and Portugal, it is using recent investments to enter the French and Italian markets, with longer term goals to establish a presence in the UK and Ireland. It is also building a B2B solution for international businesses to allow them to offer accomodation to their remote employees.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
70% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Bonus Scheme
- Flexible schedule
- Investment in your learning and development
- Employee Stock Options Plan
- A challenging job at one of the fastest growing companies in Europe
- Competitive annual gross salary, to be determined in line with your knowledge and experience
- Private Insurance
- International working environment with many different nationalities
- Work with talented, committed and supportive teammates
- Team events and an amazing internal culture
Company values
- Here to make you feel at home
- Tech-forward approach
- Sustainability
- Honesty & transparency
Company HQ
Dreta de l'Eixample, Barcelona, CT
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Founders
Stanley Fourteau
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Sales Director at Peixe Urbano, and was Head of Global Growth at Airbnb.
Jeremy Fourteau
(Co-Founder)Previously worked as a Product Manager at Zynga, and as Director of Product at EA, Headspace and Knotel.
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