Backend Engineer - Customer
parcelLab
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Munich, Germany
Posted 6+ months ago
parcelLab, the leading Operations Experience Management platform, is growing internationally, and fast! We're looking for the best talent from across the world to help us bring people and brands closer together.
We are looking for a full-time Backend Engineer to join our global Customer Engineering team. In this role you will specialize on both the data modeling as well as the technical interfaces for our solutions, and how the technical setups enables improved business functionality.
As a digital first company, we offer greater flexibility in working location. Therefore, you can work from one of our offices in London or Munich or remotely within the UK, Germany or Spain.
What you can expect
- Dealing with two main area of focus, related to the size of your account portfolio:
- large scale, international enterprise customers: providing continuous development and a deep understanding of their technical infrastructure
- mid-size retailers: creating ad-hoc custom solutions to be used by our Implementation Team and ensuring a smooth and reliable rollout
- Defining ways to better integrate our customers with a variety of tools and systems owned by our customers This might include pushing-and-pulling data from APIs for a wide variety of purposes, such as connecting with product recommendation engines, review platforms, warehouse systems, etc.
- Orchestrating how these integrations could weave into our customers’ existing infrastructure and maintain these projects through rollout and beyond
What you need to succeed:
- BSc in Computer Science or in a similar discipline, or you can demonstrate a strong ability to write and understand code via other means, eg.g self-taught, Coding Bootcamp participants
- Demonstrated experience in Python, including data parsing from various sources (APIs, files) and conversion to predefined payloads, as well as web and file scraping.
- Proficient in JavaScript, with expertise in Vanilla/ES6 (modern functions and methods), Node.js, data parsing from multiple sources (APIs, files) and conversion to predefined payloads, web and file scraping, and creation and maintenance of API/Webhook endpoints using Express.
- Extensive knowledge with database advanced querying: SQL and Mongo
- A readiness to collaborate closely with customers on detailed technical challenges. Experience in customer-facing roles an advantage.
Perks & Benefits:
🧠 Plenty of room for your own ideas...space to try, fail and learn!
🛳 Comprehensive 30-60-90 day onboarding plan in place from the very first day to help you integrate seamlessly with the rest of the company and understand new responsibilities
🏝 As a digital-first company, you choose whether to work entirely from home, in one of our offices or a mix that suits you. Not close to one of our offices No problem! Find yourself a co-working space instead, and we’ll pay
🪴 Make use of our home office set-up budget to get kitted out (a spacious desk, comfy chair, some houseplants, or great tech accessories!), and all this alongside the latest MacBook or PC
🚀 Career development opportunities, including our Leadership Development Program and our Future Leaders Program, as well as online language courses, available budgets for further training and access to LinkedIn Learning
🧘🏽♀️ Stay grounded with our free meditation, mindfulness and coaching sessions via our mental wellbeing platform nilo.health
🎉 Regular company retreats, parcelLab events (in-person and online), local and regional meet-ups, as well as team off-sites
🌏 Be part of a motivated, diverse and international team made up of over 34 different nationalities; and with a five-star rating for company culture and employee experience on Glassdoor, you’ll love working here!
About parcelLab:
We bring people and brands closer together by closing the experience gap post-sales and beyond, transforming operational complexity into opportunities to outperform for 550+ brands worldwide, including IKEA, Bose, Puma, Lidl, Farfetch and Nespresso.
With offices in Munich, London and Boston, we have been highlighted by the Financial Times as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in 2021.
It’s all in a day’s work for us:
- Monitor over six million shipments per day
- Now actively managing operations experiences in 153 countries across the globe
- Send around thirteen million pro-active, personalized, event-driven emails
- Shipping data comes from more than 150+ carriers worldwide, including DHL, FedEx & DPD
- Creating over 40 million reasons for people to fall in love with brands each day
For brands, that means more chances to create relationships that last. And for the people that buy from them, it means turning mundane operational moments into moments of joy.
Equal Opportunities:
parcelLab is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We live the motto always joy, always team, always equality, which means we celebrate diversity and do not accept any form of discrimination or harassment. We believe that diversity enriches our employee experience and allows each of us to deliver the best work possible.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or other lived experience.
Come be part of our growth – contribute your ideas and share in our success as we continue to improve the post-sales customer journey for millions of people every day.
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