Expert Backend Software Engineer

Hi! Before diving into the job details, let's give you some context on who we are and what to expect when joining the team.

Typeform has seen significant change since it was founded 10 years ago. We're expanding from a small Barcelona-based business to a truly international and remote company. Our vision is a world of more personal business relationships. We believe we can create that world by living our mission: To bring people closer with better conversations.

To do so, we look for people who are curious, ready to own their objectives, and passionate about taking organizations to their next chapter. But we are aware it's not for everyone, our environment is perfect for those willing to become a change agent and roll up their sleeves to build our rocket ship.

About the role

Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will provide the technical direction and up skill fellow Engineers. You will also be an important contributor to our Engineering organisation's strategy, branding and new ideas. This can vary from influencing the Platform team roadmap to finding opportunities to spread knowledge.

• This is a high impactful role with the opportunity to shape Typeform's history as it's an important position to affect our most strategic projects.
• Find out more about our Engineering Value Proposition here.

Things you will do

• Oversee 1 squad's technical vision and roadmap. This includes raising the technical bar by including toil reduction, technical debt, tooling, migrations.
• Build multi-quarter target architectures together with all partners, including defining the contracts and boundaries with external teams
• Contribute to the our technical roadmap.
• Autonomously research and implement solutions that are secure, scalable, resilient and easy to maintain reusing existing solutions.
• Identify and improve production metrics that are affecting the teams and customers.
• Oversee important interviews of the hiring process to ensure we attract and retain qualified talent.
• Represent Typeform on public forums related to your technical domain.
• What you already bring to the table
• You're comfortable picking up new stacks and choosing the right tool for the project. Even better, you're comfortable with Go or PHP.
• You've got experience working with AWS and Kafka
• Love to analyse a complex technical challenge to anticipate risks, technical gaps and potential issues.
• Can produce and implement fresh ideas.
• Identify and iterate audacious goals, assessing and taking risks, to guide division forward in advancing the product.
• Have the capacity to recognise quality, and the lack thereof, in the work of your team(s).
• Have a passion for helping others grow through technical excellence.
• You've got 10+ years of professional experience with modern backend development technologies and stacks.

To fulfill our vision (Bring people in) and mission (To bring people closer with better conversations), our 500 remote Typeformers from 55 different countries come together to live up and deliver on that promise.

In addition to being a validation of what we've built, our recent $135 million Series C funding round will fuel us to accelerate our product development, nurture emerging technologies, expand headcount, and deepen strategic partnerships across our platform with this investment.

• Why? Simply because 89% of companies say online is their principal customer interaction channel.
• Yet, only 34% of companies treat customers as unique individuals.
• Are you ready to join us and make a difference?
• Think you're a good fit? Hit apply-success might be just around the corner
• Typeform drives hundreds of millions of interactions per year, powering conversational, human-led experiences all over the world. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and do not tolerate discrimination and harassment of any kind, regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We believe that by celebrating our differences, we can win together.