Senior Backend Developer Norway/Poland

Are you a skillful backend developer with experience building scalable backend services used by a worldwide community? Are you looking for an adventure that is meaningful and unique? If so, Kahoot! has got the job for you!

This role is based in Norway, where we have our headquarters in Oslo, and in Poland, where we have amazing offices both in Krakow and Wroclaw.

The team

As a backend developer at Kahoot!, you will be part of the team that builds and maintains all server-side systems for our learning platform. We are a multinational team of 14 developers who develop the systems that enable our users to create and play learning content that is used by a worldwide community of teachers and trainers to make learning awesome!

You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager - Backend located in Norway.

Check out our Kahoot! Tech Blog where we share a series of articles contributed by members of our Engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Work with the rest of the backend team to design, build and maintain a robust, secure, and flexible global platform
• Work with the product teams to help deliver new features and innovations
• Work with the platform team to help enhance our server technologies and deployment processes
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Take care of the development process from idea to production deployment and monitoring of our platform

• 5+ years experience as a Backend developer
• Experience with building scalable, high-performance backend services
• BSc Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
• Ability to lead a server-side project through the entire software lifecycle
• A commitment to high automated test coverage and clean code
• Experience with Java/Kotlin
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud service providers (eg. Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services)

Nice to have:

• Experience with Elasticsearch