Senior Software Engineer
To continue to take our customer experience to the next level, we are looking to strengthen our tech team with a new team member, who wants to make a difference for our environment and make refurbished electronics mainstream. The Factory product team at Swappie is now looking for a
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
to join us in making a significant positive impact on our environment.
The Factory product area is one of our five cross-functional product areas each dedicated to solving customer problems in their domain. The purpose of the Factory product team is to develop software capabilities and automation for Swappie factories to increase throughput and quality, and decrease operating expenses and unfinished goods inventory.
As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Factory domain, you will drive technical excellence and good practices within the team. Some potential projects you'll tackle include extending our systems to support the optimization of our refurbishment operations and repair network, developing new capabilities for device diagnostics, and intra-facility logistics, or integrating automation and robotics into our refurbishment operations. You will collaborate actively with other engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Analysts, leads and experts working in our refurbishment operations, and other stakeholders. As for our tech stack, we work with Django, Python, Fast API, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and React.
IN THIS ROLE, YOU GET A CHANCE TO
- Raise the bar of technical excellence within the team, and coach and provide technical mentorship to existing team members.
- Tackle some of the most important technical and business challenges within the Factory product area.
- Have responsibilities spanning from designing features through programming to deployment, testing and maintenance of the systems.
- Continuously deliver features through collaboration, code reviews, and coaching
- Contribute in building strong engineering culture and bringing scalable ways of working.
- Challenge yourself in a unique way by figuring out how our future success is supported on an architectural level while simultaneously building prototypes and finished features.
- Write good quality, clean, and maintainable code.
WE WOULD BE EXCITED TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU
- Have a track record in back-end software engineering with Python and Django. Ideally, you have full stack understanding and knowledge of the entire lifecycle from design to operating in production.
- Are open for occasional front end related tasks even though majority of the work in the Factory team is back end focused - Focus of your work might change depending on the team’s quarterly prioritizations.
- Have proven track record of creating customer value through software development - you care about impact on our customers and business, not just the tech.
- Possess proven stakeholder management skills. You have been interacting with stakeholders to create best possible solutions for the business.
- Have experience with fast-moving projects and initiatives, remaining flexible while also delivering features and updates to deployment with ease.
- Love building user-friendly products while making decisions based on data and business intelligence.
- Are experienced with some version control (we use GitHub).
- Have fluency in English, Swappie’s working language.
- Are eager to contribute to Swappie’s mission of making refurbished mainstream.
- Have demonstrated communication and cooperation skills and commitment to agreed business results.
- Enjoy sharing knowledge and collaborating with non-technical stakeholders.
- Are able to prioritise your daily workload.
- Previous experience in the e-commerce world is a definite plus.
YOU WOULD BE A GREAT TEAM MEMBER AT SWAPPIE IF YOU
- Have a can-do attitude combined with endless optimism and impact-orientation.
- Are result-oriented and able to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Are proactive with growth mindset.
- You take ownership and share knowledge.
- Have passion for the developing not only your own work, but also the teams and organisation around you.
- Foster inclusion and psychological safety in your team and across the organisation.
WHAT WE OFFER
- A unique opportunity to take a key technical role in the product organisation of a purpose-driven tech scale-up.
- Flexible working hours and remote working possibility.
- Autonomous role within a highly supportive & low-hierarchy team - Weeklies and dailies with the team and weekly/bi-weekly 1:1s with your Team Lead. Friday demos to celebrate the week’s achievements 🥳.
- Competitive salary & great options package.
- Opportunity to choose the devices that help you to do your job in the best way possible.
- A chance to make an impact on creating a more sustainable future by making refurbished mainstream.
- Learning, development, and career growth opportunities.
CHATS DURING THE HIRING PROCESS
- Meet the recruiter: Let’s start exploring together if this role and Swappie as an employer could be a match for you!
- Meet the leader of the product area: Get to know the product area, hear how we work and tell us more about you and your past experience!
- Technical round: Pair coding and architecture discussions to showcase your skills and learn more about your potential new colleagues!
If you are interested in joining our tech team please send over your CV and tell us why you would be great at this role! Please also send over your details even if you don't tick all the boxes ☝️, happy to have a chat and let's figure out together if this role would be a match! We start having chats already during the application period and aim to fill this role as soon as possible. We are looking to hire someone to be based in Tallinn, Estonia.
- Department
- Product & Engineering
- Locations
- Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia
Why pursue your career with Swappie?
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Join an ambitious, global team
Swappie is a multi-tiered organization powered by a diverse group of professionals with a broad range of skills. We're happy to employ people from 66 different nationalities in offices located in Helsinki, Amsterdam, Tallinn, Leipzig and Berlin. Our working language is English.
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Bring purpose to your everyday
By buying and selling refurbished smartphones, Swappie is shaping the future of consumer electronics and actively reducing e-waste – the largest growing form of waste globally. When we talk about doing good – this is what we mean. And you can help. Get inspired about our positive climate impact by reading our Environmental Impact Report.
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Benefit from a culture of trust
Enjoy the freedom to manage your work in ways that suit both you and Swappie. Benefit from the sharing of information, learnings, plans and achievements. We're all in this together.
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Grow and develop your skillset
Swappie offers a wide range of career development opportunities, as well as the chance to benefit from technical training designed to improve your professional skills. There's room for you to grow at Swappie.
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Belong and be yourself
Our strength as a company comes from the diverse group of people we're proud to employ. Whoever you are – you're welcome at Swappie. We work actively to create an environment where everyone feels safe and welcome.
About Swappie
Swappie is the #1 online destination for buying and selling refurbished iPhones in Europe.
A purpose-driven tech scale-up, Swappie is home to 800 ambitious, international talents serving 1M+ customers in 11 countries across Europe. Annual revenue currently tops €208M in a market with huge opportunies for growth. Refurbished is the business of the future and Swappie is a frontrunner powered by bright, empathetic minds committed to doing good.
Launched by two friends in 2016, Swappie is on a mission to change consumer behaviour and make buying refurbished electronics mainstream. Starting in Europe, and then worldwide – Swappie gives consumers the opportunity to make more environmentally friendly purchasing decisions simply and affordably. Our business is dynamic, exciting and constantly developing, with a broad range of skills required every day across the organization.
Swappie has received consistent recognition for it's commitment to solving important sustainability challenges. It has also been recognised by The Financial Times in 2022 as the fastest growing startup in Europe, received The Finnish Innovation Fund's award for contribution to the circular economy – and appeared on Wired's list of hottest startups in Helsinki.
Visit our company page to read more about Swappie's story and the circular economy.
About Swappie
Join our mission of making refurbished electronics mainstream! 🚀
The ambition of a circular economy for technology is at the root of everything we do, and is what drives us on our mission. Our people believe tech doesn’t have an expiry date, and that great tech shouldn’t cost us the earth.
Senior Software Engineer
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