Senior Backend Developer
Football Addicts AB
Forza Football is looking for Elixir developers to join our talented team (remote or in Gothenburg, Sweden).
You will be working on the services that power our mobile apps—from the API that serves millions of clients to the push notification system that keeps our users up-to-date on their favourite football teams and competitions. You will have the benefit of working together with an Elixir Core team member in a small group of skilled developers and designers dedicated to building top-tier mobile products for football fans all over the world.
The Forza Football app covers over 800 leagues and competitions in more than 100 countries. The app has over 10 million installs and over 4 million monthly active users. At peak hours our platform handles thousands of requests per second and sends millions of push notifications.
This opportunity requires you to have:
- Experience with Elixir and OTP: you have developed applications for production use
- An interest in systems that are highly available, resilient, and run at scale
- Sense of craftsmanship: you strive for code quality and maintainability, write tests as part of your coding routine
- Knowledge about caching strategies, message queues and service-oriented architectures
- An understanding of setting up infrastructure and managing Linux servers
- Experience with deployment tooling, monitoring, alerting, data visualisation, load testing and/or live system debugging
- Strong communication skills. Be a team player, pay attention to detail, and be not afraid to share unconventional ideas
- Good oral and written skills in English, as Forza Football operates globally, and many employees are international
We do not hire solely based on experience with a few specific tools or languages or university degrees. Rather, we hire developers who are smart, pragmatic, and self-driven. We value want you to be able to learn new tools and function in an agile environment. We are an equal opportunity employer and are excited to expand our team with diverse talents from different backgrounds and cultures.
In addition, as an employee of Forza Football, you also get:
- Flexible work hours
- Six weeks paid vacation
- Parental leave benefits
- Computer and gadget setup needed for work
- Breakfast in the mornings
- Regular Afterwork events
- Conference visits with accommodation and travel expenses paid
- Relocation support and visa sponsorship
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