Backend Engineer

Join Qonexon an earlystage startup based in Berlin dedicated to revolutionise recruiting based on data. Our integration platform empowers recruiting tools to exchange data effortlessly. Be part of our fastgrowing team from the ground up take ownership and help build something truly innovative. The company is backed by wellknown investors partners already with big players in the market and is founded by an ambitous & complementary team.

Tasks

We are currently looking for a Backend Engineer to join us fulltime as soon as possible. You will be one of our first hires and gonna play a key role in growing the company.

More specifically you will do the following:

• Take ownership: Build up our tech team lead own projects and take personal responsibility.
• Have impact: Build up our tech infrastructure and develop new products.
• Python and Django Framework: Develop and maintain our web application using the Django framework and Python programming.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Integration: Collaborate with the team to design implement and integrate Google Cloud Platform services including Cloud SQL Cloud Storage and Cloud Run.
• Database Management: Manage and optimize database systems applying knowledge of SQL to create and manage schemas efficiently.
• RESTful APIs Development: Design build and maintain RESTful APIs adhering to best practices in API development and integration.

Requirements

On a highlevel we are looking for entrepreneurial people that are at the topoftheirgame. In more specific terms your skills should include:

• Strong dedication and willingness to go the extra mile with us
• Strong problemsolving skills
• Ideally 3 years of software development experience
• Proficiency or capacity to learn our tech stack: Python Django RESTful API GCP
• Previous founding / earlystage startup experience is a plus

Benefits

When you are joining our team you profit from:

• Impact & Growth: At Qonexon youll get the possibility to shape a company from the earliest days and grow with us. We get things & decisions done in days instead of weeks.
• Responsibility: From day one on youll fully own your projects and get the chance to build up a team.
• Freedom & Flexibility: We give you a lot of freedom and flexibility about how you do your work. Things just need to get done.
• Salary: A competitive compensation based on meritocracy instead of politics.
• Equity: We offer attractive equity packages to all our fulltime employees.

How do we work

• Lean: We spend our resources wisely and efficient!
• Ownership: We are a team of doers who take on responsibility and ownership proactively work independently and get things done (well) with little oversight.
• Excellence & Speed: We dont want to be average. Thats why we strive for excellence and are obsessed with speed. We treat issues only with the complexity they deserve and do not overcomplicate/overdiscuss things.
• Teamwork: We win and lose as a team. Egoists are not accepted.
• Fun: We dont just work for the sake of working. Besides nonwork related things we do as a team regularly (dinners offsites sports activities etc.) we want to have fun every day and dont take things too seriously.
• Hybrid: We dont offer any fully remote positions (yet). We believe in the early days of a company working together in the same room and having team events regularly is extremely important. You can work from home but we are looking for people who want to be part of and shape our company and culture not solely through video calls.

We are an equal opportunity employer! We embrace and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are open to all groups of people without regard to age color national origin race religion gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!