We are one of the fastest-growing podcast & audiobook platforms in Europe and we are now looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Community team. Join us on the quest to shape the way people learn, discover, and unwind through audio experiences and thereby enrich lives through listening.

This is the role

As a member of our Community team, you will work on enhancing user engagement through community-focused features such as comments, reactions, polls and posting in the app. Your responsibilities will include supporting and developing features that align with our Community strategy, ensuring system stability and optimal performance. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business objectives and propose innovative solutions.

Your primary tasks will involve building and maintaining high-quality community features, driving team deliverables, and ensuring robust code quality to create a seamless user experience.

Your main responsibilities in this role:

• Work on high-quality feature implementation in Kotlin, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks
• Design robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients
• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud
• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and allow for regression testing
  

This is you

You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy collaborating with talented people, all on the same mission to enrich life through listening. In your day-to-day, that means that you are motivated by the opportunity to work and develop our app to create a great user experience for our listeners. We focus on agile methodologies and a customer-centric approach.

You are a collaborative and curious team player who enjoys autonomy and the opportunity to impact the way we work. We appreciate an open, honest, and respectful communication style, a growth mindset, and the ability to work with a wide range of people. We appreciate that everyone is different and we want you to bring your best self to work in whatever form that is.

Experience we’re looking for:

• You have 2-3 years of professional experience in Kotlin / Java or any other JVM-language
• You have good experience using Spring Boot and experience in developing REST APIs
• You have experience in using PostgreSQL
• You have experience in using PubSub, Kafka or similar messaging solutions
• You have some experience/are willing to work with containers and utilize tools like Kubernetes
• You have some experience/are willing to work with Async programming
• You have good communication skills in English as this is our company language across our markets
• Having knowledge or experience with GraphQL is a benefit
• Having experience in community features: high load comments, social feed or algorithms would be a benefit

Naturally, being passionate and knowledgeable about podcasts, audio content, media, and entertainment is a big plus!

What We Offer

• Up to six months of fully paid parental leave for all new parents - no matter how you identify or where in the world you live
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for all employees
• Free online therapy sessions through We.Care
• Learning and personal development opportunities to help you thrive and enrich your skills in a fast-paced creator economy
• Flexible ways of working with the opportunity to work flexible hours and remote
• The chance to make an impact at an international company and see your work pay off immediately
• Delicious lunch with caring colleagues in a vibrant atmosphere
• Salary ranges from 5000-6000 EUR GROSS if based in Vilnius
  

This is the hiring process

First things first: we ask you to submit your CV or provide a link to your LinkedIn profile. Sharing your motivation for the job is highly appreciated, but not expected. If we pick your application to continue to the interview stage, this is how we plan to run the interview process:

• An initial chat with our Tech recruiter
• A tech case and interview with potential future colleagues
• A chat with Engineering Manager

We might change it up to make sure it makes sense. Our main focus is to run an efficient and enjoyable interview process. We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and the preferred starting date is mid October or shortly thereafter.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Podimo is an equal opportunity employer, and we believe in equal opportunities for all in our workplace. We don’t discriminate based on race, colour, religion, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, age or political orientation, no matter where we operate.

This is us

Founded in Copenhagen in 2019, Podimo is a platform for podcast and audiobook lovers as well as audio content creators. Our app puts a world of podcasts and audiobooks at your fingertips. Our revenue-sharing model rewards creators for making content that people want to hear – whether they have an established following or a niche audience.

We're a courageous and curious bunch. We recognize the value every individual brings, and respect our coworkers’ ideas, opinions, and time. We approach our work with integrity and humility, and believe that we are better together. We have zero time for sharp elbows and big egos.

We’re fiercely passionate about discovering, creating, and obsessing over great stories. We support our creators deeply, and have massive respect for their process as we help them bring their most exciting ideas and stories to life. We love what we do, but more importantly, we have a good time doing it.

We seek to build a company and culture that mirrors the diversity of the world we’re living in. This means; diversity of talent, voices, ideas, and thoughts. That goes both for our brand, our content, our creators, and our teams.

You are welcome at Podimo for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what stories you have playing in your headphones.