Scala Backend Engineer

at  Famly

At Famly, we’re looking for a Scala Backend Engineer to build awesome GraphQL and REST APIs to enable our platform to help the thousands of daycares that use Famly.

We are looking for people in the following locations:

• Copenhagen, Denmark
• Berlin, Germany
• UK (Remote)
• Lisbon, Portugal

If you aren’t in any of these locations, do consider applying; we’re always open if the right candidate comes by.
And Famly are…? Well it all began when our co-founder Henrik’s daughter was ready to start at daycare. He couldn’t believe the amount of work being done on paper - and how distant he felt from his first child during the day. The paper ‘parent’ books they exchanged once a month just weren’t cutting it. Together with his friend, our co-founder and CEO Anders, they set about solving that.

These days, the 150 of us building Famly talk about trying to do two things for our 6,500 nurseries:

• Giving children the best possible start to life.
• Championing the vital work that goes into making that happen.

We do it with software that brings hundreds of thousands of parents closer to their child’s day while they’re away from them. We also make financial, pedagogical, and planning tools for more than 34,000 childcare professionals, saving them hours and reducing their admin stress.
Ultimately, that gives them more time and headspace for the little ones that really matter. Come help us make that happen.

THE INTERVIEW PROCESS IS:

• An intro video chat with our People Partner
• Logical test
• Take home technical assignment with a follow-up chat
• Personal interview

We’re looking to fill the position as soon as possible, so get your application in today by sending us:

• Your CV
• A cover letter to tell us what you can bring to the role, and what speaks to you about Famly.

Looking forward to hearing from you!
Famly is committed to creating a more diverse, equal, and inclusive workforce, building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. It is a fundamental policy at Famly not to discriminate on any basis or characteristics and celebrate diversity. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to apply.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Working in our Foundation crew with other Frontenders, Backenders, a Designer, a Product manager and an Engineering manager.
• You will play a key role in planning what’s next, designing, developing and rolling out cool new features and changes.
• You’ll team up with the Backend Chapter to shape the future of our tech stack, tooling and reducing complexity across our code.

YOU’LL THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU CAN:

• Build solid APIs in GraphQL and REST (we primarily use Scala with our GraphQL API but also maintain a PHP REST API)
• Use functional programming (we use cats, cats-effect, fs2, refined, and slick)
• Model complex data structures and express them in a relational way (we use MySQL)
• Bring crystal clarity to complex and ambiguous ideas and projects.
• Communicate feedback, expectations and information in clear and kind ways, both written and spoken (we’re over 40 different nationalities, and our company language is English)
• Learn super fast, be open-minded and ready to adapt our technology, teams and ways-of-working as Famly scales in brave new directions.
• Make your teammates shine by supporting each other to learn and grow.
  We appreciate that everyone brings something unique, so even if you don’t tick every box, please still apply.