The opportunity 

We're so much more than just a sports aggregator platform. We're on a mission to disrupt the way people connect with sports, and we do it with a mix of creativity, passion, and a whole lot of tech. 

As our Senior Backend Engineer you will work in a dynamic team of engineers who share a passion for technology and for providing the best experience possible to our partners. You’ll get a unique opportunity to join the Member Experience hive, driving features to improve the sports offering and check-in experience for our members. 

Urban Sports Club engineers are smart, flexible and great problem solvers. We follow software development best practices to build a well-specified, scalable product based on strongly modularized architecture, automated testing, and deployment. Join our team and help us continue to inspire people to lead an active and healthy life!

Your responsibilities 

• Be a valued member and technical lead of an autonomous agile team to continuously experiment, iterate and deliver on new product objectives.
• Collaborate with other engineers, product owners, and designers to identify and solve challenging problems, creating an awesome sports experience for users worldwide.
• Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code and take operational responsibility for the components that you develop.
• Be a strong participant in the Urban Sports-wide backend cluster affecting and driving best engineering practices across the company.

What you need to succeed 

• You have proven working experience as a Senior Backend Engineer with Golang (PHP knowledge is a plus).
• You have worked with GCP/AWS and corresponding cloud managed services.
• You have experience working directly with stakeholders to understand, document and develop APIs and systems to meet their requirements, driving increased adoption and reducing reliance on custom one-off implementations.
• You have written distributed, high-volume services and know how to deploy and keep them running in production.
• You believe data is the most powerful tool for informed decision-making.
• You have a deep understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.

Our offer to you 

• Relocation support for you and your family
• An interesting Tech Stack. Check it out here.
• We’re working in hybrid mode offering you flexibility to work onsite and from home
• WorkOUT Life Balance: 30 days paid vacation per year, flexible working hours, free access to our Employee Assistance Program, plus up to 3 months of remote working from anywhere in the EU, desk swap policy allowing additional remote working time from our other European offices
• Regular team events and other initiatives helping employees to stay productive, healthy and engaged during hybrid mode
• Personal development perks including regular internal trainings, German and English language classes
• Many additional perks including: choice of computer/technology, employee referral bonuses, monthly home office allowance, private health insurance, and more
• A free Urban Sports Club L Pro Membership

Urban Sports Group is committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone who applies for a position or already works with us, regardless of their sports preferences, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, or religion (or lack thereof).