Backend Developer

Do you want to work for one of the hottest startups (Wrapp.com) in one of Europe's startup capitals (Stockholm)? You've found the right place.

Called the capital of Scandinavia, Stockholm is a great place to live. People are friendly, beautiful and eager to try the next big thing. Currently, we think that's Wrapp, the latest addition to our city's long list of startups, and Skype-founder Niklas Zennström's first investment in his native Sweden.

At Wrapp we love giving gifts and want to make the act of giving as easy as it is to send a greeting on Facebook. Working for Wrapp means working with an amazing team of engineers that have previously helped building companies including Spotify, Rebtel, Stardoll, Groupon, SoundCloud, Jaycut, Bambuser, Ocean Observations and Epidemic Sound /add to list/. Though that's a long list, we're still a small team: only seven people on the tech and product side of the company. That means you will have a big impact on the future direction of things at Wrapp.

We're passionate about our work and expect you to be as well. We value a strong academic background but think intellectual curiosity, ambition and genuine interest in your field matters more. You probably have a side project you're working on that you'd be proud to show us, perhaps an open-source project at GitHub or just a cool browser extension, web site or mobile app.

While we prefer full-stack generalists who can work on any part of our code base, we have four areas where we see people focusing.

All the applications mentioned above consume a common RESTful JSON API served over HTTPS by our backend system running on top of AWS. It's written in Python using the Twisted framework and quite a long list of Amazon's higher-level services.

If this is all Greek to you, you should probably do some reading before applying. If, on the other hand, this sounds like your second nature, we warmly welcome your application.

Apart from understanding ? and having experience of ? how to build a scalable piece of web technology, we expect you to have a firm grasp of algorithms, data structures and complexity. Don't be surprised if you get questions about big-O notation or are asked to devise an algorithmically efficient solution to a problem during the interview. If you also have a practical understanding of the machines your code will run on (virtual or not) and know how many orders of magnitude access time differs between disk, RAM and L2 cache (and why it matters), please send us your resume right away.

We don't really care what text editor you use. Both Emacs and vi are OK.


To apply for this position please click the following link: http://wrapp.theresumator.com/apply/Pm1wMb/Backend-Developer.html