Be My Eyes is looking for a Senior Backend Developer to work with our teams in Denmark and the U.S. to advance our mission of making the world more accessible for 253 million blind and low vision people around the world! Do you want to write software that really matters?
You will have a real impact in taking Be My Eyes to the next level in terms of features and functionality as part of our small but growing team. You have the skills, experience, wisdom, ability to collaborate and patience to work with the team to deliver high-quality software to meet our users' needs.
What you get to do every day
Work with a small and dedicated team
Ship your code to production and impact the daily lives of thousands of people around the globe.
Design and build advanced applications for our user-facing platforms.
Actively participate in coding, pair programming, reviewing pull requests, and testing.
What you bring to the role
A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject.
Experience building, managing, and scaling APIs, preferably using Python and REST.
You’re comfortable jumping into unfamiliar codebases and languages.
You know how to work with relational databases, such as PostgreSQL.
You take initiative and bring tasks to completion with your team, you hate leaving a task unfinished.
Nice to haves
Experience with Django.
Experience with other programming languages such as Ruby and Javascript.
You’ve built high scale systems with RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar messaging queues.
Exposure to AWS or Heroku infrastructure.
The Be My Eyes product development team is based in Denmark and fully remote. Some of us are in the Aarhus area and some of us in Copenhagen. If you’re not based in Denmark you need to be within +/- 2 time zones from CET.
This job comes with several perks and benefits
We take care of you, even when you are old and wrinkly.
Want to be a partner? Look no further.
You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.
Kids are the future, go spend time with them.
Metropolitists, beach boys and mountaineers we salute you and pay you to go and explore the world.
Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.