Software Engineer

tl;dr
Do you want to use state-of-the-art technologies to create an optimal and sustainable trade of food?
Do you enjoy digging into the details of a complex system, evaluate and discuss architectures, while improving the everyday-life quality for farmers?
Do you love to code?
Do you want to be part of a growing company with highly value-driven people?

About the role
Hands-on tasks to learn more about agriculture and how tech can enable a more sustainable food chain.
Prioritise initiatives dependent on our current problems and given the resources we have. Please read more about how we work in this article.
Build systems with a micro-services oriented system architecture with K8s, Docker and GCP.
Work with modern practices and technologies for building web applications, such as GraphQL, React and Node.
Implement CI/CD automation and optimisation of information retrieval.
Extensive work with full-stack JavaScript to ensure that you grow as a modern software developer.

More than anything, your role will be a crucial part of something important - enabling a sustainable and optimal trade of food.
Who are you?
We believe that you need to be purpose-driven and have the motivation to focus on technology as a tool to reach our vision. While we believe that tools are important, especially that you have some kind of experience with JavaScript, more than anything we think we can get passed any toolbox issues if you're motivated enough and can prove your problem-solving skills.
We also like you to fit into our company in terms of our core values:
Creativity and curiosity. As motivation.
Humility and feedback. For personal growth.
Celebrate. Always.

Need-to-have:s
In order for us to even consider you as a candidate you need to be:
Open to feedback
Humble
Curious
Purpose-driven
Ready to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
A nice person

Apart from the above, we think it's crucial that you:
Have dedicated several years of your life to designing, building and evaluating software solutions
Together with us, wish to become a world-class software engineer.

We don't care if your previous experience is through a university degree, open-source projects or as a software developer at any company. We mainly care about your dedication and the level of skill you present.
Nice-to-have:s
Most of our tech stack is concerning our user-faced web platform. The main language is JavaScript, with React as our standard frontend client and Node for backend. We love GraphQL and everything from the Apollo toolbox. In terms of databases we enjoy Postgres, and we use GCP and Github for infrastructure/CI/CD and versioning. Our product management tool is Asana, which we're all very pleased with and dedicated to. For communication we mainly use Slack, integrating with other relevant tools such as Google's suite of Drive, Mail and Calendar, but also many bots for different purposes.
If you have experience from any of these tools, it's beneficial. If you enjoy working with JavaScript, we think you will enjoy your time at Skira.


Employment type
Full-time employment
FAQ
Where is Skira’s office located? Where will I be working?

Our main office is located in central Stockholm on Kungsholmen. We promote working together, but we also know that you can’t stress creativity, which means that you’ll have a lot of freedom concerning working hours and place of work.
Can I apply even if I’m not from Sweden?

Absolutely and unequivocally yes. We believe that a diversified team will make us stronger and more dynamic when facing our upcoming challenges. We don’t want anyone to doubt themselves due to differences in race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. What we do want, is that our international candidates know that taking a job at Skira means moving to Sweden and spending a majority of their time sitting with the rest of the team.
Compensation?

You will get a competitive salary, employee stock options opportunity and standard old age pension insurance.
Isn’t it hard working for a startup? Long hours and stuff like that?

We believe that a life-work balance is essential in order to perform at your job. Together with you, we continuously evaluate your situation and bring our best effort in order to make Skira fit into your life.
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