Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer

Location: Remote working based in Portugal

Team: Mobile Engineering

Type: Full-Time (Permanent) 

About OneFootball

OneFootball is the world’s #1 digital football platform, with more than 100 million active users across the world. Founded in 2008, we have come a long way to provide our users with the best personalised digital football experience.

As a media platform, our vision is to connect Football Fans with the best Football related content and media.

At OneFootball, our purpose is to disrupt the status quo and make football more accessible, inclusive and enjoyable. We are a product-driven company with an obsession of crafting a great user experience backed by world class engineering.

Sponsorship Integration Squad - About The Team & Your Place In It

You will join the Sponsorship Squad within the OneFootball Product and Engineering area.

We in the Sponsorship Squad, believe in the win-win-win solution: to provide the perfect user experience, great partners, and the best football content. You will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining the backend powering our Android, iOS, and Web applications. 

As a part of this squad, you will have the opportunity to shape the platform and impact over 100 million users over the next few years.

This will be a middle to senior-level engineering role. You should display a strong technical background and maturity in order to be successful in this role. The number of years of experience is less relevant than your ability to deliver and lead yourself and your teammates to excellence. We welcome candidates with 3-7 years of experience. However, we have seen people starting to display this maturity with less than 2 years of experience. So if you have what it takes, go ahead and apply.

The qualifications listed below are only indicative of our expectations. You do not need to meet all of them to be successful. You’ll fit right in as long as you are curious, and have the ability and willingness to learn things quickly.

What You'll Do:

• Build and continuously improve services that power world-class experiences for the football Fans
• Write high performing, maintainable, well-structured and well-tested code
• Lead discussions on how to design systems and improve the technical architecture of our services
• Work in a cross-functional squad and collaborate across different squads to solve user problems
• Ensure high availability, reliability and performance for our services
• Contribute to solving organisation-wide problems when it comes to backend engineering by collaborating with backend as well as platform engineers from different teams
• Work in a culture of collaborative and agile problem solving - adopting practices and principles from Extreme Programming and Continuous Delivery like mob & pair programming, YAGNI, TDD
• Work in a culture that combines fast delivery with safe deployments by adopting modern approaches to development like Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, Observability Driven Development, Event Driven Architecture
• Contribute to improving our product development process to continuously raise the bar for product delivery and developer experience
• Provide on-call support on a rotational basis

What You’ll Bring

• A strong grasp and fluency with writing code in Go (or a language similar to Go like C, C++ or Java, combined with a willingness and ability to learn and master a new language quickly)
• Strong experience building high performing services and APIs
• Experience designing and interacting with database schemas - preferably with a SQL database like PostgresSQL
• Experience with designing and architecting systems (High Level Design), as well as designing the right code structure (Low Level Design)
• Curiosity, a collaborative mindset and strong problem solving skills
• The ability to understand the user problem at hand and propose solutions based on all trade-offs involved
• Familiarity with the latest best practices related to writing code, building and designing systems as well as delivering software
• Experience with containerisation technologies like Kubernetes and IAC tools like Terraform
• Experience or familiarity with NodeJs, Python, Machine Learning/NLP/AI

Why Join Us?

At OneFootball Portugal, we embrace a remote-first approach, allowing you to work from anywhere while staying connected with your team.

• 🌴 Vacation Days: 25 days, plus 1 extra day each calendar year (up to 5) + your birthday off 🎂
• 🌟 Personal Days: 5 "OneFootball Days"—take time off whenever you need, no questions asked!
• 🏥 Private Healthcare for you & your family 💙
• 🍽 Daily Meal Allowance—because great work needs great food!
• 📚 Learning & Development Budget: €600 per year (after probation) to invest in your growth 🚀
• 🧠 Mental Health Support via OpenUp—because your well-being matters ❤️
• 💻 Company-Issued MacBook to do your best work!
• 🌍 Remote Work Abroad: Up to 63 days per year working from another EU country and up to 6 weeks outside of the EU.

No matter where you are, OneFootball is committed to providing a workplace that values flexibility, balance, and personal growth. Join us today! 🏆

At OneFootball, we value the insights and ideas that stem from having a diverse team. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to be a part of the beautiful game—irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, background, sexual orientation, religion, team followed, or other personal traits. Whether you're a dedicated 24/7 football fan or not, we actively seek to recruit and support a diverse team to ensure our platform, football, and the wider world are viewed through an inclusive lens.