Job descriptionBased in Vietnam out of our centrally located
Ho Chi Minh City
ffice, what3words is looking for an experienced
Senior Backend Engineer
That’s why we created what3words. We divided the world into 3m squares and gave each square a unique combination of three words. It’s the easiest way to find and share precise locations.
who knows code, and enjoys solving problems and designing, building and scaling robust services and solutions.
Over the last year, what3words has been used in 193 countries, and our monthly active users continue to grow at an impressive pace. Our tech is used by emergency services, delivery companies, eCommerce businesses, ride- hailing apps and NGOs, and is integrated into the navigation systems of millions of cars around the world.
Our mission is to become the global standard for addressing. Street addresses weren’t designed for 2024. They aren’t accurate enough to specify building entrances, and they don’t exist for parks, rural areas and many parts of the world. This makes it hard to find places and causes problems and inefficiencies on a global scale.
Who we’re looking for
This a great opportunity to join a collaborative and ambitious team, at one of the most exciting times in this company’s life.
You’ll be working to deliver our product roadmap, choosing technologies and delivering projects. At what3words, we’re proud of our tech stack. We have built a massively scalable, microservices- based architecture, based around Kubernetes on AWS. You’ll be exposed to technologies such as Docker, EKS, Spring, Flux, Consul, CircleCI, OCR/Alexa/voice recognition, ArcGIS and other platforms.
Your skills and experienceAbility to work independently on significant features over several sprints seeing work through shipping
Keen to own things and work end- to- end on features
Knowledge of or interest in working with JNI/C++
Experience working with a Java web framework (we use Spring for the tech test)
Commercial experience working with SQL & DB schema design
Full development lifecycle including deployment: we use Docker & Kubernetes
5+ years of commercial Java development
Able to work directly with PMs/QA/clients to define requirements