Software Engineer, Backend (EMEA) at Hotjar

Department: Product & Engineering

Job Description

• Please do not apply for this role if you are not physically located in Europe, Africa or the Middle East (UTC-1 to UTC+3). While this is a remote position, we can not consider candidates that are not based in these regions. You can find a detailed explanation in our Recruitment FAQs.
• At Hotjar, we’re creating Product Experience Insights software for digital product teams. We help show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value, fast.
• As part of our Engineering team, you'll work on the exciting challenges that come with large-scale web traffic and analytics.
• We work in an agile and highly collaborative environment, 100% remotely, and challenge the norms of traditional business leadership. Our focus is on true transparency and respect.
• We're looking for an enthusiastic and resourceful software engineer, passionate about building great products, someone who loves being part of a team, whilst enjoying the autonomous nature of working remotely.

About the Job

• You'll work as part of an agile, cross functional team with other engineers, product managers, and product designers.
• You will create production grade Python code and will implement solutions designed to handle high levels of traffic.
• Participate in building and owning new services that power our product.
• Build and maintain dashboards, monitoring essential application and business metrics.
• Work with other team members through pair programming, code reviews, and ad-hoc assistance.
• Collaborate with engineers across the department to identify and build on improvements to our processes and systems.

Requirements

• 4+ years background in building and maintaining high traffic web backends
• Demonstrable experience using Python and relational databases.
• Experience using Redis, Linux, Nginx, Elasticsearch, and Amazon Web Services is a plus.
• Familiarity with automated testing in Python.
• Familiarity with distributed revision control systems such as Git.
• Fluent in English with effective interpersonal skills.
• Pragmatic engineer who actively avoids over-engineering of solutions and understands how to maintain high-quality code in a delivery-focused environment.
• Desire to work in a respectful, transparent, and collaborative work environment, following Hotjar’s company values, culture and ways of working.
• Will submit to a background check, confidentially processed by our third-party.

What we offer

• A remote and accomplished diverse and international team.
• An opportunity to positively impact people’s experience online and make the web a better place.
• Annual learning and development budget.
• Several perks designed for your well-being and a healthy work-life balance. (budgets for Holiday, Wellbeing, Working Together, as well as 16 weeks paid parental leave, and much more).

Compensation Range

• The compensation range for a team member in this role is €70,000 to €90,000 annually where the typical offer will fall in the range of €75,000 to €80,000.
• Our ranges are established after performing market research but the specific compensation amount of the offer will be determined based on relative experience, skills, and equity across the team.
• We encourage all candidates to read our Recruitment FAQs to further understand our approach to compensation and how we structure our contracts.
• In addition to the monetary compensation, we provide all team members with an assortment of unique and popular perks valued at more than €10,000 a year, plus stock options and 40 days of annual leave.
• These have been chosen to reflect our values and ideals, be it encouraging constant learning with our Personal Development Budget, a great work/life balance with the Holiday Budget, or a happy, healthy team with our Wellbeing Budget.