Analytical Backend Engineer

Salary Competitive

Before Humly, Kristoffer (CPO) and Gustav (CEO) were college students and substitute teachers, dealing with the same problems many face with agencies: the last-minute work calls, the calls that don’t come, the lack of power or say in your career, and so much more. So they built a home where educators are as important as the job itself. They built Humly, so educators globally can have the power to choose when, where, and how much they work – simply and easily, without hassle. With 23k+teachers across 7.5k+ schools/nurseries and growing, it's fair to say that Humly has turned into growth adventure.

About the Role

At Humly we nurture a data-informed culture. We measure and analyse constantly. We share the numbers with everyone, and use many metrics to drive our strategy and decisions, small and large. 

Metrics and KPI are essential. But not all metrics are equally important. They need hierarchy. To ensure we stay on track we have adopted the North Star Metric (NSM) framework and selected a single key metric that best represented the core value our service delivers to our users. Like the guiding North Star 🌟, it provides us with direction and focus, helping us align our teams towards long-term growth.

We've come far, but there is a lot more we can do, and we are looking for you that can bring experience and energy to push Humly even further.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of our data lake and warehouse setup, ensuring data is ready and available for analytics.
  • Work towards a future of semantic metrics, providing a clear an unambiguous metric tree.
  • Work on improving the data integrity, standardisation and denormalisation of our database.
  • Perform ETL from various data sources, like our core platform, development tools, infrastructure, CRM and more.
  • Collaborate the rest of the company on how to best visualise and analyse our metrics.

Our tech stack

  • Service oriented architecture
  • Frontend: React, Typescript, Material-UI, Remix, GraphQL
  • Backend: Nest.js, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, Postgres
  • Infrastructure: Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, OpenSearch, Prometheus, Jaeger
  • CI/CD based on GitOps operational framework

Qualifications

  • BA or MS degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years of professional experience in software architecture and development using Python and SQL.
  • Experience working with data warehouses, star schemas, ML/stat models
  • Confident in exploratory data analysis and visualisation
  • Fluent in English.
  • Located in or around Gothenburg (or willing to relocate)

Exciting things about Humly's product team

  • No sprints, but shaping and cycles: https://basecamp.com/shapeup
  • Business-focused and data-driven approach to development
  • Lots of influence in a small and flexible team
  • Hybrid office model - flexibility with responsibility, ~3 days at the office
  • International and diverse team
  • Real impact on quality education - a UN Sustainable Development Goal

How we hire

We evaluate candidates continuously, don't wait - send us your application today!

  1. Intro call - A first casual 30 minute conversation with our CTO about Humly’s short and long-term goals and how those might be related to your personal career goals. This is a good time to discuss deal breakers and concerns you might have upfront.
  2.  Assignment or Reference case - A way for you to show us your experience hands on.
  3. Technical interview - A 1-hour deep-dive into the craft of software development with a couple of our engineers. We let you describe how you engage with problem solving and you can share your opinions about technical debt, project management, and favourite tech stacks. This is also an opportunity to learn more about what our team enjoys about working at Humly, and ask the hard questions.
  4. Culture Interview - A 1-hour talk with our CTO and one of our founders into your previous experiences and learnings. Share with us your successes and failures and all the permutations in between. The goal is to get to know how what you’ve done before has shaped your perspective about the who/what/why/where/when of what you want to do next.

About Humly

Humly is a digital marketplace matching supply teachers and schools. 70 million teachers are needed globally to reach the 2030 UN sustainable development goals, and Humly is set to solve a piece of that puzzle.

Humly has financially strong and active owners in Viking Ventures and Alfvén & Didrikson, and have raised 17 MEUR. We are in a scale-up phase in the UK and have high ambitions. The UK market alone is a 2 billion EUR, and Humly has a first mover advantage.

Humly has 80 employees working at our offices in Gothenburg, Sweden and at several sites in the UK. The marketplace has over 5,000 active educators and over 5,000 active schools that each year helps save more than 1,000,000 hours of education.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Near public transit
Near public transit

Pension plan
Pension plan

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

New tech gear
New tech gear

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Work life balance
Work life balance

Working at
Humly

We're empowering educators with total control in their hands and we’re helping the world to teach. We do this by revolutionising how schools and nurseries find the best educators. We do this by empowering educators with full-career control. And we do this because we must. Because by 2030, up to 69 million classrooms and nurseries won’t have a teacher. But with a push of a button, supply educators can find, choose, and book every job that fits them. With a push of a button, schools and nurseries can instantly and easily find educators. With a push of a button, we simplify, modernise, and improve education for everyone everywhere. And with a push of a button, we can help those 69 million classrooms and nurseries learn another day. In 2015, Kristoffer and Gustav, our Head of Product and CEO co-founded Humly in Gothenburg, Sweden. But before the C-Suite, they were college students and supply teachers, dealing with the same problems many face with agencies: the last-minute work calls, the calls that don’t come, the lack of power or say in your career, and so much more. So they built a home where educators are as important as the job itself. They built Humly, so educators can have the power to choose when, where, and how much they work – simply and easily, without hassle. They built Humly so every eligible educator can find the classroom and nursery that’s right for them.

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