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Backend Architect

Published date more than one year ago
Posted: more than one year ago
Company Yousician
Company: Yousician
Location Helsinki
Location: Helsinki

Join yousician

Yousician aims to impact and enrich the lives of millions of people by enabling them to learn something new, promoting their wellbeing and using their time for something meaningful. Our job is to reimagine music education, so everyone can play. 

However, you don't need to be a musician to join Yousician. 

We’ve built an amazing team of creative, passionate, and independent people, all working together to help millions of people learn, play, reach their goals, and have fun. If you are looking for a rewarding career opportunity in the rapidly growing and changing scale up business, you’re in the right place!

Why you should apply

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a seasoned and talented Backend Architect to join our Yousician core engineering team to work alongside like-minded and talented individuals on taking our backend development to the next level. As a Backend Architect in the core team, you will work together with architects and developers from the product teams. You will be responsible to define, prioritize and implement solutions and drive our strategic efforts to create an even better environment for our developers.

 

What you'll do

As our Backend Architect, you will:

  • Improve the core systems behind our backend products, such as localization or A/B testing.
  • Empower our backend developers, identify technical issues, and provide solutions for our developers to work as efficiently as possible.
  • Continuously improve our engineering culture, practices and processes.
  • Assist and mentor backend developers across the company
  • Help make architectural decisions for our backend systems
  • Promote development best practices

 

Who you are

  • Strong knowledge of Python and related frameworks (we use Flask)
  • Strong experience with databases (mostly MongoDB)
  • Interest in researching and evaluating up and coming backend technologies
  • Ability to drive strategic efforts in API development
  • Strong people skills: communication, conflict resolution
  • Interest and experience in working with operations is a plus

 

What we offer

  • You’ll have an opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing scale-ups in Helsinki, backed by the top VC’s and competing with the best education applications in the world.
  • You'll have a meaningful and profound impact on the lives of millions of musicians and future musicians in almost every country of the world.
  • You’ll get to work with a passionate and friendly growing band of PMs, designers, developers and data scientists.
  • You'll get a competitive compensation package - salary, crazy perks, equity options - and work in an awesome office in the heart of Helsinki.

 

HOW TO APPLY

Send us your application and CV (in English). Let's make the world a more musical place together! 

 

ABOUT YOUSICIAN

Yousician is the largest and fastest growing music education company in the world, with millions of users worldwide. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with an office in New York, USA, Yousician develops high-tech interactive software for learning guitar, piano, bass, vocals and ukulele. Yousician provides real-time feedback on how you’re playing, combining the addictive features of computer games with songs and exercises to make the learning process easy, fun and motivating. Yousician also develops the world's #1 guitar tuner app Guitar Tuna (iOS, Android) and has won numerous international business awards including WIRED’s hottest Finnish start-up, SXSW, Midem, Launch.edu, and educational awards such as Sunday Times 'World's best apps' and Best European Learning Game. Today Yousician employs 140+ professionals with nearly 30 different nationalities and has an annual turnover of $50M+. 

 

We're hiring, so come join an amazing team and help us make the world a more musical place!

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