Senior Backend Engineer

At Tise, our goal is to make the world favori’tise second hand by making it easy, fun and inspiring to sell and buy second hand through our marketplace. Sustainability is at our core, and we strive to use our voice and platform to help people make more sustainable choices every day. With ~3,5 million users and a passionate community of Tise’ers across the Nordics, we’ve experienced strong growth in recent years! 🌱

We have now become a part of the eBay family — one of the world’s largest and most established marketplaces. This marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter for Tise, bringing huge opportunities for growth, learning, and impact as we scale our product and technology faster than ever before.

Senior Backend Engineer 💚

The Tise team now counts over 100 people, the majority at our headquarters in Oslo. We're currently 32 engineers, split across Backend, Data/Machine Learning, Web, iOS, Android and a Growth team.

We’re now looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help take Tise to the next level 🚀

As a backend engineer at Tise you’ll build and expand APIs and services, and work with the rest of the team to develop intelligent and inspiring product capabilities. You’ll help shape some of the most important technical decisions in the company, collaborating closely with other engineers, designers, and product managers to build delightful user experiences.

At Tise, engineers rarely work on the same thing for long, we take on a wide range of challenges across the company. From powering search and recommendations and streamlining shipping and payments, to building tools that support our internal teams. Everything we do aims to make sustainable living easy and fun.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll primarily work with TypeScript to build our Node.js-based services, using Elasticsearch and MongoDB. You’ll also contribute to our Python services backed by PostgreSQL, and help improve our testing and deployment workflows with GitHub Actions and AWS.

The position is a full-time permanent role based at our headquarters in Oslo, and you will report to the Engineering Manager.

🌱 Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems across the product
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
• Work with the other engineers and designers to build new features at scale
• Help improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Work closely with eBay colleagues to ensure Tise is safe and scalable

🏓 We are looking for someone who:

• Has 8+ years experience as a developer, preferably building backend services
• Enjoys a dynamic work day and can easily adapt to changing priorities
• Structure and complete tasks independently, communicate assumptions, and seek clarification from partners to ensure alignment
• Is team-focused, productive, contributes ideas, welcomes input, and helps refine solutions together
• Offer mentorship to junior developers, fostering a culture of quality coding, continuous learning, and collaboration
• Practices continuous integration, and translate product designs into high-quality, well-tested code
• Is fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Can work at least 3 days a week from the Oslo office

💚 What we offer:

• Work with a highly dedicated team of in-house developers

• A healthy work-life balance. We work for ourselves and our users, not corporate clients

• Work on bringing one of Norway's most used apps into the world with eBay

• A possibility to help on the way to a more sustainable planet through engaging young people everywhere in buying second hand

• Competitive compensation package, flexible working hours, and an inspiring team environment

• A colorful, social, and fun office in the heart of Oslo
  

If this sounds interesting, don't hesitate to reach out and apply by sending in your CV and a motivational letter (in English). We will be inviting candidates for interviews continuously! ⭐ ️

Are you curious about the culture in Tise and who the Tisees are? Check out our instagram profile where we share pictures from the day to day life in Tise. https://www.instagram.com/tiseteam/

At Tise, we’re proud to be a diverse team representing several nationalities, with English as our working language. We believe that diversity strengthens our work and that’s why we encourage all qualified candidates to apply - regardless of age, gender, disability, religion, ethnic background, or gaps in your CV.

Application deadline: January 9