About
We’re Basket (trybasket.com) – a fresh and exciting new approach to create, share and follow wishlists for the products and services you love. Basket keeps your content organised, up to date, and helps you make better buying decisions across all shopping categories.
To continue our growth, we’re seeking a Backend Engineer who has experience and passion for ETL processes with a focus on data transformation pipelines, data storage in MongoDB, and data delivery via GraphQL APIs. To excel in this role and have a positive impact on our customer success, you’ll have strong experience with AWS infrastructure, serverless architecture, event-driven microservices and a test-driven mindset. You’ll need an ability to learn quickly, think big, and deliver rock-solid results in a fast-paced startup environment. This is an exciting opportunity to join our backend team as we seek to significantly expand our ETL process and support a wide range of interesting data sources.
To thrive at Basket, you’re someone who thinks big, who embraces change, and relishes a fast-paced engineering environment. Of course, on the team side, you’re someone who welcomes collaboration and feedback. You are proactive, continuously look for ways to grow yourself, help teammates, and opportunities to make the products you work on stronger. This is a chance to join an innovative team where you will be challenged, and have significant input to shape a product we believe will become a global household name.
What You'll Do
Write, improve and maintain serverless functions to accurately transform and load data into efficient and organised MongoDB storage
Develop and maintain 3rd party data clients to enrich stored data
Be highly organised and collaborate effectively with remote team members.
About You
The following are essential requirements for this role;
Fluent in English (writing and speaking).
Located within +/- 2hr of UK time (GMT+0)
Minimum 2 years full-time work experience as a backend engineer on production services
Advanced knowledge of Python, and pythonic code.
Experience with MongoDB
Intuitively look for ways to keep code modular, tested, and maintainable.
Keen to learn, share and step outside of your comfort zone to create ambitious solutions to e-commerce challenges.
A high level of energy and enthusiasm about being part of a small, progressive team.
Good To Have
These are good to have, but not essential for the role
Production experience with AWS services in a microservices context, such as Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, and EventBridge.
Track record of building serverless applications (Serverless Framework or SAM)
Track record with TDD approach to engineering.
Our Culture
Our culture is built on respect, collaboration and a drive to shake up the world of shopping. We’re at the beginning of our journey with opportunity for new team members to lead projects and shape services that customers interact with daily. Our team are conscientious, deep thinkers, always striving to be awesome human beings.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds at our company. We are dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, colour, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin.
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Salary and compensation
$50,000 — $80,000/year
Location
Europe
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