Senior back-end developer to Alva Labs

Senior back-end developer to Alva Labs
You spend half of your awake time working. Finding the right job matters. Unfortunately, around 40% of all hires are seen as unsuccessful. It can be due to the candidate leaving, problems in performance, lack of opportunities for growth, and many other reasons. But it doesn’t have to be like this.

Alva Labs is now looking for a senior back-end developer to help us continue to revolutionize the way the world views talent and hiring.



The company
Alva Labs is a Stockholm-based SaaS company that offers a solution that is helping global companies grow their team in a scientific way. Alva has created a unique candidate assessment platform that helps companies build their organisations with the right people in the right place. By combining state-of-the-art psychometrics, data science, and an obsession with candidate experience, it provides the needed tool for data-driven talent acquisition.

We are growing 2-3x per year and are in the exciting phase to launch Alva in new markets. Current focus is on building a great product, enabling Product-Lead-Growth and releasing our next big bets.

The role
The team is currently divided into three different squads, end of year, we are looking at six to seven squads. Each focusing on one product surface. You will work closely with other experienced engineers as well as designers, and product managers.

Within 1 months you will:

- Have received the support you need in order to get a good start at Alva.

- Start to familiarize yourself with the product and the system.

- Started contributing to the squad’s work



Within 3 months you will:

- Worked both with backend code and cloud infrastructure. Complete at least 1 ticket in each part of the tech stack.

- Have helped your team build new features quicker than we otherwise would have - the velocity has increased significantly.



Within 6 months you will:

- Impact the quality of the product, getting to the point where we fix all bugs and are improving performance metrics

- Help introduce significant new features which radically improve our product.

- Be proud of the product and the codebase



Our backend tech stacktech stack:

- Python

- React, JavaScript/TypeScript

- Google Cloud Platform

- Pub/Sub

- PostgreSQL, Firestore

- Kubernetes, Cloud Run

- Protocol buffers

- Event-driven microservices



The tech stack is described in more detail HERE (https://alvalabs.notion.site/Working-as-a-Software-Engineer-at-Alva-ebfa7e5d7ffe41f9bffd86650c48cb3e).

You
Background isn’t super important to us, we are more interested in who you are. Ideally, you have worked with building distributed systems before. More importantly, you:

- Love solving complex problems and turning them into solutions that breathe simplicity

- Are ambitious and structured

- Are a prestigeless team player



The internal language is English, so no need to speak Swedish.

What we offer
- 7 weeks of vacation

- On-market salary and stock options

- Flexible work hours and a hybrid model (you decide if you are at the office or remote)

- Opportunities to grow your technical and/or leader skills

- A well-used and appreciated system to work on (without technical debt and free of legacy)

- A company that actually puts the product first

- 60+ coworkers from 16+ nationalities (If you want to creep on the team (https://www.notion.so/alvalabs/People-9b32574c8b3747759680da1dbda59b35), fire away!)

- A value- & purpose-driven organization that has the opportunity to change the world of hiring, and impact lives (read about our company values HERE (https://www.notion.so/alvalabs/Alva-Values-630a69c6c72642f2b1caab5dab55b953).)



You can read more about our benefits HERE (https://www.notion.so/alvalabs/Benefits-1abeeb8de8004f6ab915f2fced70f057).

The hiring process
Given that we claim to be experts in hiring, you probably wonder what we have in store for you.

- Objective screening with Alva’s own tests

- First interview (focusing on who you are)

- Case

- Technical interview

- Done deal!



Come help us change the world of hiring!

Welcome to Alva!