Backend Engineer (all genders) - Golang (Platform Engineering)

Full Time
Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia
11 months ago
The opportunity 

We're so much more than just a sports aggregator platform. We're on a mission to disrupt the way people connect with sports, and we do it with a mix of creativity, passion, and a whole lot of tech. We're in the exciting process of developing a game-changing SaaS solution, and our cloud infrastructure is the heart of it all.

The Platform Engineer  - Developer Experience is a high-impact, cross-functional role at the heart of our engineering organization. The Developer Experience team and the entire Platform hive support our internal engineering teams throughout the complete development lifecycle of Urban Sports Group, using a unique mix of software engineering and SRE skill sets to enable our product engineers to take advantage of everything the platform provides while also minimizing the cognitive load required to do so.

Your responsibilities 
  • As the owner of various tools and services, you strive to empower fellow engineers on different teams to work more efficiently
  • Be a valued member of an autonomous agile team to experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives continuously
  • Shape how services and tools are built, tested, deployed, released, and monitored across all environments, from the local machine to our production clusters
  • Collaborate directly with product teams to design, implement, and optimize new features, addressing complex challenges of our dynamic platform
  • Have fun and create a culture of belonging, wellness, diversity, inclusion, and career growth for the tech organization
What you need to succeed 
  • You have over 2+ years of software engineering experience in backend development or developer tools
  • You have solid experience with Go and Python, or similar. Additional tools and technologies like gRPC, Google Cloud Provider, and PubSub are a plus
  • You understand data structures and algorithms
  • You want to work with a technical team on developer-facing tools and services and like writing excellent technical documentation and valuable tutorials
  • You love working in an environment where you constantly experiment and iterate quickly
  • You embrace feedback - no one is perfect, and neither are we. So let’s make this an opportunity to praise and learn from each other
Our offer to you 
  • We offer relocation support and sponsorship for work permits
  • An interesting Tech Stack. Check it out here.
  • We’re working in hybrid mode offering you flexibility to work onsite and from home
  • WorkOUT Life Balance: 30 days paid vacation per year, flexible working hours, free access to our Employee Assistance Program, plus up to 3 months of remote working from anywhere in the EU, desk swap policy allowing additional remote working time from our other European offices
  • Regular team events and other initiatives helping employees to stay productive, healthy and engaged during hybrid mode
  • Personal development perks including regular internal trainings, German and English language classes
  • Many additional perks including: choice of computer/technology, employee referral bonuses, monthly home office allowance, private health insurance, and more
  • A free Urban Sports Club L Pro Membership

Urban Sports Club is committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who applies for a position or already works with us, regardless of their sports preferences, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion (or lack thereof).