At Famly, we’re looking for a Backend Engineer (Copenhagen-based) to build everything from prototypes for experimenting to scalable solutions for longterm growth, to further enable our platform to help the thousands of daycares that use Famly.

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 70 of us building Famly talk about trying to do two things for our 3,200 customers:

• 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.

What you'll be doing:

We are looking for a senior backend developer who enjoys creating everything from prototypes to final solutions, and is excited about working in a very data-driven way.

• You’ll work both on bigger strategic projects as well as quick, lean experiments

• You'll work in a very data-driven team where you can instantly track and see the impact your work has on our customers

• You'll work across our product on a wide variety of different tasks

• You will play a key role in planning what’s next, designing, developing and rolling out cool new features and changes.

• Work closely with the rest of the Growth team to transform Famly into a product-led organisation

• You’ll team up with the Backend Engineering 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:

• Work independently, be a self starter and take ownership of your work

• Confidently build both lean experiments as well as scalable solutions

• Build solid APIs in GraphQL and REST (we use Scala for our new GraphQL API and PHP for our 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 20 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.

This is a senior position, but we do appreciate that everyone brings something unique, so even if you don’t tick every box, please still apply.

You’ll love working here because:

• We’re all about hiring a diverse array of clever people - who are good humans too. It means Famly is full of top thinkers and generous teammates waiting to help you shine.

• We like to give a lot of ownership both in terms of responsibility and freedom to try new things. We’ll get you up and running and collaborate along the way, of course.

• Top-notch work equipment (including noise cancelling headphones for those focus periods!).

• A big focus on people support with personal and career development, including monthly training sessions in a wide-variety of topics.

• Flexible hours - We fit work around our lives - not the other way around. If you need to work different hours sometimes, take the day from home (or the Maldives), we trust you to do just that.

• A yearly training and conference budget of 10,000 DKK

In the Copenhagen HQ, you can enjoy:

• A yummy daily buffet and a well stocked drinks fridge (did someone say snack corner?)

• Our private rooftop courtyard (sunny all year round, we promise…!)

• Post-covid social activities have now resumed… enjoy endless team fun with dinners out, office BBQs, friday bars, big quarterly social events, game nights, a daily 7 minute workout, and more!

The compensation is:

Our salary range is 30-55k DKK per month depending on experience.

The interview process is:

1. An intro video chat

2. Logical test

3. Take home technical assignment with a follow up chat

4. 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!