Senior Backend Engineer

About Us
Gelato has built the world's largest and most global network for on-demand production of customized items e.g. t-shirts, wall art, mugs, books, hoodies, and cards. We support a new wave of e-commerce entrepreneurs and the global shift towards local and more sustainable production.
In many ways, we at Gelato are rethinking how digital fabrication of customized products can be done on-demand. Just imagine what will happen when we add 3D printing capabilities to this global service. We are already empowering thousands of e-commerce entrepreneurs to grow and scale their businesses.
Gelato Engineering
We own no physical production assets, nor servers, instead our asset is a cloud-based connectivity platform that enables world-class on-demand production for e-commerce platforms and applications. This engineered platform needs to provide our customers access to more than 100 production partners in 32 countries and includes production plate design, routing to an appropriate partner, finally linking to logistics’ systems for delivery to the consumer. All this in 72 hours and reaching more than 5 billion people and potential consumers in a smarter, faster, and greener way.
We have a multicultural Engineering team of over 50 people working in 5 countries who build, grow and maintain our applications and platform. Our engineering landscape provides the technology to extend our capabilities and features across 3 customer-facing applications: Optimalprint, Globe, and Gelato API plus the digital connectivity platform. The employed technologies range from backends using PHP and GoLang to mobile apps built natively or with hybrid technology, running on cloud services and with a modern CI/CD pipeline.
We are flexible on location and building our teams in Norway, Estonia, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, India, Spain, and Brazil.
What you will be doing
Using the latest technologies to solve real problems for our customers at a massive scale
Collaborating closely with other engineers as a valuable member of a cross-functional team
Sharing your knowledge and building creative solutions while helping the team evolve best practices
Designing, developing, and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability
Taking end-to-end responsibility for the services that are owned by your team, including taking part in an on-call rotation

Who you are
A minimum of B.S. degree in Information Technology or Computer Science or 5+ years in a similar position
Able to adapt, change and grow quickly as we scale the organization
Passionate about engineering practices like agile, continuous delivery, test-driven development, traceability, and observability
Growth mentality, are curious and not afraid to be experimental.
You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you
Solid experience as an Engineer designing, developing, and maintaining API driven solutions
Strong communication skills, high integrity, and great attention to detail

You’ll get to work with:
Docker and Kubernetes
Go and/or PHP
PostgreSQL, Elastic search, RabbitMQ
Memcache, Redis
Microservices architecture
ELK, Jaeger, Prometheus & Grafana

What we offer
We offer you a chance to be part of a truly amazing journey in a company that sets very high targets and works hard to achieve them. You will be able to work with smart, motivated, and engaged co-workers from all over the world, in an intense and very energetic environment. This leads to you having a tangible impact on the way that we operate and expand our business.
Some of the highlights of the package include:
Strong technical culture of continuous innovation and improvement
Chance to become a shareholder of Gelato!
Flexible festive holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.
Work at one of our hub city offices or even remotely
And much much more!

Want to learn more?
We believe that Culture is important so we wrote about it! Check it out here
You can find out more about why we created Getalo and read our CEO’s open letter
We even made a film about why and what we do! Watch on Vimeo
Out and about? Why not listen to a podcast about Gelato on Spotify
And of course when you meet us, please ask questions about these topics!

As we continue to grow we want you to grow with us and for the right candidate, there is no limit to where this opportunity might take you. Together we can increase global GDP by effectively supporting local sustainable on-demand production.