Backend developer - Golang

Who we are
Instabox is making online shipping smooth and sustainable. We have a network of smart, fully automated lockers, so our users can collect their parcels wherever and whenever they like, with a click of a button. Over the past five years, we’ve grown to a business with over 1700 employees, millions of happy users, and thousands of lockers across the Nordics - and now the Netherlands!

What you’ll do
As a backend developer at Instabox, you’ll work in an agile team with a clear domain. Our tech teams have full ownership of their data, architecture, and processes, and you’ll get to have a real impact on how we build and develop our services - and our tech stack. All of our teams are highly collaborative and we’re looking for people who enjoy learning, sharing, and working with other developers to solve new and interesting problems. You would be joining a small team that values communication and work-life balance.

Here are a few of the teams you could join…

The capacity team
Responsible for calculating parcel arrival times as well as optimizing locker fill rate. Arrival times are calculated based on models that try to predict people's parcel pick-up behavior as well as predicting future parcel orders from different merchants. The estimated arrival times are shown at merchants’ web checkout and directly impact conversion rates while fill rates impact how efficiently we utilize our lockers.

The geospatial team
A small, new team specializing in providing fast and precise geospatial data - an important area as we bring our smart lockers to new cities and countries. The team’s microservices provide data for a range of internal uses - from driver route optimization to locker placement - and we are responsible for developing algorithms to determine which lockers we offer customers at our merchants’ web checkouts. We believe in exploring and experimenting, and we work closely with data to get to see the real impact of what we do.

Who you are
At Instabox we value individuals who are keen to learn, and your eagerness to develop your own skillset will probably be your strongest asset when joining us. Beyond that we imagine that you have the following:

- At least +3 years experience in a backend role working in a modern tech environment
- Experience working with Golang
- Ability to think creatively to solve problems
- Good facilitation skills
- Proficient in English
- Comfortable making decisions around technical system design and architecture
- A collaborative approach to getting things done
- Experience with automated testing and code reviews
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, or mongo (or equivalent database technologies)


Nice-to-haves:

- Experience with event-driven architecture
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, or GCP


If this is you, then we can’t wait to meet you!

We offer you...
The chance to be part of something truly amazing. We can promise you that you will be challenged, pushed to develop your skillset, and have the opportunity to work with great and smart colleagues. The journey ahead is what excites every Instaboxer working here today and we are just getting started. Then there is the compensation package, engaged managers, benefits, centrally located office, etc. but we’ll get to that in due time.