Your mission
We are looking for a senior back-end engineer, who is a Python guru, a hands-on senior developer and motivated to take on the development challenges
when scaling to hundreds of customers. You are interested in new technologies, love Python, and consider yourself a technical geek, but are hands-on.
You jump on POCs to verify your ideas, connect with other team members and are smart in delivering results. You consider yourself highly analytical,
great at solving problems and believe that others can learn from you.
Your responsibilities
● Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code
● Participate in the direction of application architecture
● Concepting and delivering entirely new core features of the application, making the architecture behind those scalable and reusable
● Maintain code quality across the organization, bring in your experience to develop a large application
● Implement all user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
● Identify bottlenecks or bugs and devise solutions
● Work in an agile environment with cross-disciplinary teams
Your skills
● Excellent and in-depth understanding of the syntax of Python and its nuances, AWS and Git
● Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
● Experience with modern applications and test frameworks
● Familiarity with concepts of RESTful APIs, Mocking, and ORMs. GraphQL is a plus.
● A knack for writing clean, readable code
● Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
● Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (git)
● Familiarity with development-aiding tools ex. pip, virtualenv
● Familiarity with continuous integration
● Experience working with cloud automation would be a benefit
● Familiarity with virtualization like docker and/or Kubernetes is a benefit
You can expect:
● Being a part of a highly motivated international team of professionals
● Lots of responsibility
● A workplace in the heart of Vienna or remote options with quarterly office weeks in Vienna Helu.io
Why us?
Location: Vienna, (remote option available with quarterly office visits for one week in Vienna)
About us: We were recently rewarded for being the most interesting Austrian scale-up. We raised €15m overall and offer a fun, friendly, young, dynamic team, a great, interesting, and challenging product, and the opportunity to work with the newest technologies.
Our values: Healthy team spirit, a growth-oriented environment, and a culture of performance. We stand for trust, respect, a welcoming atmosphere, fairness, an active feedback culture, room for failure, collaboration and a strong sense of team appreciation.
Helu empowers business leaders to make the right strategic decisions in Financial Management and Planning.
Our mission is to help companies plan, forecast and analyze all their data in one place.
Our headquarters are based in Vienna, Austria. We’re a team of experienced, international professionals who are looking for talented and ambitious people open to build an exciting global company with us.
Helu is founded by a successful serial entrepreneur and backed by numerous unicorn founders and renowned investors ( Wefox, Atlantic Labs, Commerzventures)
About us
Helu is the leading FP&A software on DATEV.
As successful Austrian scale-up tech company that raised $10m Series A recently, we help business leaders plan forecast and analyze their performance with any data. We are an experienced team with strong values and look for well-rounded people who think long term and love new technologies.
Every three months, the Helu team meets for an office week in Vienna, where we work on our company culture, our values, and a healthy team spirit. Colleagues work together, get to know each other better, explore Vienna, do sport activities, party and have fun.
The company is founded by a successful serial-entrepreneur and backed by numerous unicorn founders and renowned investors (Bitpanda, Wefox, Atlantic Labs).
The Helu Hiring Process
1. Chat with us
We look at your application and if it is a match, you will speak with our head of engineering.
2. Solve a challenge
Next, we will send a short challenge revolving around your everyday work. Once solved, you speak with the front-end lead and head of engineering.
3. Meet your team
In a last step you get to know the founder and product owner.
4. Come on board
If everyone thinks it's a fit, we make you an offer and you join our very nice and professional team.
