About Bark

Bark is revolutionising the way people find professionals in over 1,000 unique categories. As the UK's largest and fastest-growing services marketplace, we're on a mission to make finding the right professional quick and easy. With a presence in eleven countries and plans for further expansion, joining us at this genuinely exciting time will be a journey like no other.

Our cutting-edge technology ensures that you can always find the best professional for any job. With a talented team of over 250 dedicated individuals, we're committed to providing exceptional service and ensuring that our customers are satisfied every step of the way. This is an exciting time to join our scaling business, we recently placed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024.

As a profitable scale-up, Bark is in a unique position to offer the best of both worlds; the excitement and agility of a start up combined with the financial security and backing of a renowned private equity firm, EMK Capital. You'll have ownership, agility, responsibility and stimulation without any of the worry.

*Please note you must be based in Spain to be considered for this fully remote role

About the role

We are looking for Senior Backend Engineers to join our growing team. You’ll become a core part of our expanding, dynamic team which is responsible for developing scalable product features using modern development patterns.

You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of making systems work efficiently at an increasingly larger scale.

Our current backend technology stack is written in Python and you should have good industry experience writing production code in it - but we also embrace change and your experience will help to shape our technology strategy, helping to adapt our architecture as we grow.

You’ll get the opportunity to utilise a variety of technologies to pave the future of Bark whilst enhancing how we solve complex online problems in cutting-edge areas such as personalisation, AI assisted analytics and engagement. You’ll be involved in every aspect of the process: idea generation, business analysis, technical and architectural design through to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Work with development teams and product managers to conceptualise and implement software solutions

• Build elegant and performant APIs and handlers

• Develop and manage well-functioning datastores and services

• Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase

• Mentor other engineers to support their growth

• Design and code solutions for systems with a high volume of transactions a second

• Work with other high performing departments to revolutionise the product

Required skills and experience

• Expertise and extensive experience using Python in a production environment

• Defining, implementing and testing:

  • APIs

  • Event Handlers

  • Business logic

• Integrations with 3rd party systems

• Production SQL and NoSQL database experience

• Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate/ECS/EKS

• Experience building, maintaining, testing and documenting features to be used by other developers both internally and externally

• Strong organisational skills

• Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment

Desired skills and experience

• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem

• Experience with FastAPI framework

• Experience with cloud monitoring systems, such as Datadog

• Experience with ElasticSearch, MongoDB or similar

• Interest in AI as a tool for increasing developer efficiency