Desired Skills and Experience

  • Attractive and competitive salary as well as participation in success
  • Develop and define areas of responsibility directly by implementing your own ideas as well as by taking the lead for independent projects
  • Modern Offices with a pool table, Foosball and ergo­no­mic office equipment right in the heart of the cities of Dresden and Berlin
  • Flexible working hours, Home Office when needed and an equilibrium of work and life
  • Professional and personal development through feed­back talks, language classes, MOOC fee re­im­burse­ments (e. g. Coursera) as well as in-house events such as ThunderTalks, Showtime, Open Space Days or the LOVOO Compass
  • A motivated and multicultural team with familial spirit
  • Cross-departmental communication and knowledge sharing as well as learning directly in cross-functional teams and an US exchange programs with our parent-company ‘The Meet Group’
  • Opportunity to attend and speak at international conferences & local meetups
  • Assistance with relocation for internationals
  • A rich culinary variety with regular lunch and dinner offers as well as a comprehensive selection of drinks
  • Diverse sports & health offerings plus our own LOVOO Gym
  • Design, modeling and implementation of all backend parts of LOVOO
  • Development of innovative features for the dating sector in agile and cross-functional teams
  • Active increase of code quality through application of XP (e.g. TDD, refactoring, pair programming and CI/CD)
  • Collaborative development of deployment pipelines and runtime environments in the cloud (GCP) in cooperation with our Site Reliability Engineers
  • Regular training and continuous knowledge exchange through in-house tech talks, in-house trainings and communities
  • Participation in hackathons as well as national and international conferences
  • Relevant knowledge in dealing with PHP/Go or at least two high programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Rust, C/C++ or Erlang
  • Experience in development of medium/large-scale web applications and distributed systems
  • Secure handling of common design and architectural patterns
  • Knowledge of various backend technologies (e. g. microservices, docker, gRPC, HTTP/2.0, SQL, Redis/memcached)
  • Sound knowledge of common algorithms & data structures
  • Hands-on mentality in working in a cloud environment (like AWS, GCP)
  • Practical experience in agile software development and process management (Scrum/Kanban) and ideally also in working in cross-functional teams
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Cassandra, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Google BigQuery or Google Spanner is a plus
  • Independent, reliable and structured way of working
  • Interest in Open Source as well as willingness for continuing education
  • Sense of humor and excellent communication skills in German or English

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