Backend developer - Golang

About us

Over the course of the past six years, we’ve grown into a business of over 2000+ Instaboxers united by a single purpose; providing an uncomplicated shipping service - all in order to make everyday life easier. We want to change the industry and not only be a part of the future, but to drive development towards it. It should be easy to shop online, and therefore we offer millions of customers across Europe a hassle-free and fossil-free shipping experience.

We’re fast, both in terms of parcel delivery and when it comes to growing our business. So far our journey has taken us from Sweden to the rest of Scandinavia and parts of continental Europe, but we have no plans on stopping anytime soon. As we continue to expand, the complexity of Instabox grows in parallel. With that in mind, we’re now looking for Backend Developers to help us to govern our journey ahead!

About the role

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'd be joining a small team that values communication and work-life balance.

Here are a few of the teams you could join…

The geospatial team, a small, new team specializing in providing fast and precise geospatial data - is 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.

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.

About you

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:

- +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


What we offer

A role at the very center of what makes Instabox, Instabox. Your work will have a tangible impact on the way that we operate and we promise you that you’ll be challenged, pushed to develop your skillset, and have the opportunity to work with talented and ambitious people who strive for excellence and never settle for “good enough”. The journey ahead is what excites every Instaboxer working here today and we’re just getting started. Then there’s the engaging culture, centrally located office, compensation package and so much more, but we’ll get to that in due time.

If you’ve read this far there is clearly nothing stopping you from clicking the apply button.

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