Backend Engineer – with AWS and Go at Shapr3D (Budapest, Hungary)
We’re on a mission to reinvent 3D design for the 21st century.
To achieve this, we’re completely reimagining legacy computer-aided design (CAD) tools with an iconic, mobile-first product. Over the past two years of high-speed growth, our Apple Design Award-winning app has been regularly featured in Apple Keynotes and commercials, and demoed in retail stores around the world. But what we’re most proud of is the global user base that uses our product every day. We’re backed by top European VCs Point9 Capital and Creandum, focusing our $6M Series A on scaling our team across the board.
By joining engineering at Shapr3D, you’ll get the chance to build a world class product – one that’s already used by hundreds of thousands of design professionals across the globe. Hence, well on its way to disrupting a 30 year old CAD industry. Oh, and it’s rather satisfying when you see your app featured on apple.com. Yes. That’s right. Shapr3D is one of those apps.
Besides constructing an amazing application, we are also working hard at Shapr3D on building a world-class engineering organization. In our Engineering VP’s words: “our focus is on making sure that all our teams are empowered and incentivized to make decisions independently. People aren’t afraid of taking risks, setting ambitious goals, and in some cases, failing. We know how to learn from our mistakes.” (Akos Kapui, Engineering VP). Read more about this and our engineering philosophy here.
How would you contribute to the mission?
- Our growing number of teams take on larger initiatives and deliver the features end-to-end to customers. There are various teams working on a very diverse range of topics – from empowering our business decisions through data, to supporting customers with new tools to manage their accounts, and up to enhancing our user’s experience via 3D alignment of objects, or adding support for keyboard and mouse.
- You will be joining one of our core teams – the backend Services Team – and you’ll be working among others on building a smooth and intuitive subscriptions management experience for our awesome users. This will imply (but would not be limited to): building a team subscription feature, introducing newer subscription tiers, user management tooling, letting users manage and share their designs in the cloud, etc.
A sneak peek into our stack…
- Our stack runs on AWS using serverless technologies
- All our backend code is written in Go
- On the database side we are using PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
- We use AWS Lambda for compute and in general native AWS building blocks for the rest wherever possible
- We take testing seriously, no untested code can go into production
- Heads-up: occasionally you might need to touch TypeScript and React as well as our backend services team is owning some smaller frontend applications also. But this will only take a fraction of your time as the focus in the role we’ll be backend heavy.
In an ideal world you’ll bring a bunch of these things to the table:
- Strong track record with backend development, Go being a great plus. However we are quite stack agnostic here so don’t shy away from applying if another common backend language is your thing
- In-depth relational databases and distributed system design experience
- Exposure to a production environment hosted by a major public cloud provider
- Experience with building and scaling-up distributed microservices
- Proven experience with writing high quality, testable, maintainable code
And the following applies to you and will help you thrive at Shapr3D:
- Curiosity fuels your journey
- You are dedicated to building products that break the mould
- You like to take ownership of things and to learn from your mistakes
- Quality code and very robust architectural decisions define your approach, while being able to move fast and build things with flexibility
- Users and data lie at the core of your technical decisions
- Users and the product come first. Team next. And your ego last
What does a successful first 6 months look like at Shapr3D?
Solving problems in our domain requires an in-depth knowledge of computer architecture, operating systems, and computer science – but more importantly you have to understand our product and domain. Hence the first couple of weeks of your onboarding will mainly focus on learning and understanding our practices while later it will shift towards autonomy and efficiency in the role. You’ll be guided and mentored by experienced engineers and your team throughout the whole process.
Now let’s fast forward into the future. By the end of your probation we would expect from you to have a clear understanding of our systems and to be able to deploy small changes to any of them. Aside from that we’d expect for you to show a deeper understanding in at least one focus area – for which ideally you already came up with a design document for some product increment.
By your 6 months mark you have a very strong understanding on how subscription management works. Hence being able to lead a cross teams project from the engineering side – with the scope of designing, implementing and releasing at least one new feature into production.
What do we offer?
- A down-to-earth culture and an opportunity to scale this thing up together
- The chance to build a word-class product and to learn from some of the best professionals in their field along the way
- Unconditional support for your professional development – be it reading a book or attending a course to grow your skills, it’s on the house
- Relocation support if you’re not from Hungary
- 100% sick leave payment
- A generous healthcare package with Medicover (upon passing your probation)
- An iPad Pro and Ultimaker office 3D printer so you can play with the app
- A spacious office with a panoramic view of downtown Budapest
- One of the best coffee machines in town and well-stocked office snacks (including fruit, cereals, sweets, savories, a company Wolt account while we’re working remotely, and more)
If all this speaks to you and you’re up for reinventing 3D design for the 21st century, we should definitely talk! And don’t worry if you don’t tick every single box in the requirements. We’re always looking to hire for potential and the right mindset – so we’d still love to hear back from you.
***Please submit your CV in English***
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