Description

Hi there 👋  We’re looking for a dynamic Back-End Engineer with solid knowledge in Node.JS and Typescript

We're an impact-driven, fast-growing (1$Mio Angel-backed) startup on a mission to democratize access to venture capital and accelerate investment into Food, Climate and Health. 

This role is central to our growth, full of responsibility and ownership with plenty of room for you to grow. You’ll get the opportunity to join a small, rapidly growing, tight-knit company that values proactiveness, impact and collaboration. 

As the ideal candidate, you’ll have outstanding tech-skills, be able to work in a fast-paced environment, have a keen interest 

in FinTech, the Climate, Health sectors and concrete experience building scalable tech products. Previous leadership experience in a startup / scale-up is a big plus. 

You will love it here if you :

🌍 Always dreamed of putting your tech skills behind climate & health solutions

📈 Believe tech & decentralisation will enable more people to participate in financial markets

👋 Get frustrated working in slow-moving institutions and want to join a lean team to get things done / ship fast with us

 

About the job

On a daily basis, you will

• Work with Product Managers to specify new features and improve the product
• Maintain and create new API based on our needs
• Develop those new features with a focus on quality/readability in mind, write unit tests/integration tests and documentation if necessary
• Push and monitor your new features into production
• Help to solve production problems related to features you worked on
• Work with agile methodologies
• Contribute to the definition of the team’s short and long term goals
• Do sprints with an integrated (dev and designer) team

Required Technical Skills

• 3 years of experience as a backend developer
• Good understanding of relational databases and planning architecture for new features
• Have knowledge in CI/CD to automate builds and deployments
• Different authentication mechanism (2FA, passwordless, OAuth providers)
• Developing in Typescript, NodeJS with clean and maintainable code, having design patterns and architecture in mind
• Code Quality practices (experience in using testing frameworks), constructive code reviews
• Experience with relational RDBMS (such as Postgres)
• Experience with API design and third-party integration
• Experience with Strapi CMS
• Have a good understanding of authorization and authentication for accessing our backend services

Nice to have

• Experience in FinTech products is a big advantage
• Experience working with Stripe Payment Processing Platform
• Experience working with Strapi CMS v3 & v4
  • Adding and extending existing collections
  • Developing plugins for connecting with third party services (session initialisation, webhooks)
• Using in-memory data structures (such as Redis) to optimize data delivery

Required Soft Skills

• Taking initiative and having the ability to lead a subject from beginning to end
• Open-minded and very positive can-do attitude
• Comfortable in dealing with change and complexity
• Self-confidence, enthusiasm and the ability to challenge proposed solutions 
• Ability to give & receive feedback in a constructive way
• Full spoken & written proficiency in English is a must

Benefits

• CHF 66'000.- annual salary, inline with the rest of the team
• 0.5% equity stock option, inline with the rest of the team
• Coworking membership and laptop provided 
• Work in a fully remote environment based on trust and self-management
• Join an international team of 9 motivated people, that care about open communication, work-life-balance and having a concrete impact
• Take part in our quarterly team offsite in the Swiss mountains 🏔

Emplacement

HackVentures c/o Mazars SA, Av. Gratta-Paille 2
1018 Lausanne
VD