Hotjar
Hotjar is a successful Product Experience Insights company that operates on a fully remote basis, with team members spread throughout Europe, Africa and the Americas. Our team casts a wide net across many locations, lifestyles, and backgrounds. We celebrate the uniqueness and strength found in diversity: it’s our differences that make us interesting, and our shared belief in Hotjar’s Core Values that bind us together.
We are recruiting qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer, Backend (EMEA)
Location: Remote
Department: Product & Engineering
Job Description
- Please do not apply for this role if you are not physically located in Europe, Africa or the Middle East (UTC-1 to UTC+3). While this is a remote position, we can not consider candidates that are not based in these regions. You can find a detailed explanation in our Recruitment FAQs.
- At Hotjar, we’re creating Product Experience Insights software for digital product teams. We help show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value, fast.
- As part of our Engineering team, you’ll work on the exciting challenges that come with large-scale web traffic and analytics.
- We work in an agile and highly collaborative environment, 100% remotely, and challenge the norms of traditional business leadership. Our focus is on true transparency and respect.
- We’re looking for an enthusiastic and resourceful software engineer, passionate about building great products, someone who loves being part of a team, whilst enjoying the autonomous nature of working remotely.
What you will be doing
- Work in an agile cross-functional team with other engineers, product managers, and product designers.
- Create production-grade Python code and will implement solutions designed to handle high levels of traffic.
- Participate in building and owning new services that power our product.
- Build and maintain dashboards, monitoring essential application and business metrics.
- Contribute towards and improve our tech stack which includes technologies such as Python, Flask, Elasticsearch, Postgresql, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS.
- Plan, build, test, and release new features and experiments.
- Work with other team members through pair programming, code reviews, and ad-hoc assistance.
- Collaborate with engineers across the department to identify and build on improvements to our processes and systems.
- Share your knowledge and learnings across the organization via chapter talks and internal/external posts.
Requirements
- 5+ years background in building and maintaining high traffic web backends
- 5+ years demonstrable experience using Python and relational databases.
- Experience developing cloud-native web application backends.
- Professional experience with system architecture and modularisation.
- Experience with automated testing in Python.
- Experience using Redis, Linux, Nginx, Elasticsearch, and Amazon Web Services is a plus.
- Familiarity with distributed revision control systems such as Git.
- Familiarity with automated builds and Continuous Delivery.
- Pragmatic approach to engineering, actively avoiding over-engineered solutions, and with an understanding of how to maintain high-quality code in a delivery-focused environment.
- Desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, following Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working.
- Will submit to a background check, confidentially processed by our third-party partner.
What we offer
- A remote and accomplished diverse and international team.
- An opportunity to positively impact people’s experience online and make the web a better place.
- Annual learning and development budget.
- Several perks designed for your well-being and a healthy work-life balance. (budgets for Holiday, Wellbeing, Working Together, as well as 16 weeks paid parental leave, and much more).
Compensation Range
- The compensation range for a team member in this role is €80,000 to €105,000 annually where the typical offer will fall in the range of €85,000 to €95,000.
- Our ranges are established after performing market research but the specific compensation amount of the offer will be determined based on relative experience, skills, and equity across the team.
- We encourage all candidates to read our Recruitment FAQs to further understand our approach to compensation and how we structure our contracts.
- In addition to the monetary compensation, we provide all team members with an assortment of unique and popular perks valued at more than €10,000 a year, plus stock options and 40 days of annual leave.
- These have been chosen to reflect our values and ideals, be it encouraging constant learning with our Personal Development Budget, a great work/life balance with the Holiday Budget, or a happy, healthy team with our Wellbeing Budget.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Note
- Hotjar pledges to be a harassment-free and discrimination-free company, committed to equal opportunity.
- We believe people from different backgrounds, with different identities and experiences, make our product, and our company, better.
