Senior Backend Developer (Core team)

AppFollow is an App review management and ASO platform.

Our main goal is to ease the everyday routines of app developers, product managers, marketing teams, customer support, etc. AppFollow helps you gather and manage your apps and games data, increase app average rating, improve app store rankings, and app user loyalty.

This is a fully remote opportunity for the Senior Backend Developer (Core team) to develop AppFollow for the international app world to help companies worldwide grow their business using AppFollow. As a part of the team you will work on core product functionality to analyze and manage ratings and reviews at scale, automate workflows, and monitor app store performance.

About the Role

- Develop and optimize the functionality of AppFollow product in Core team

- Contribute to the system for automating user interaction with customer reviews (tagging, responding to reviews, etc.)

- Support system for analyzing customer reviews (reporting, dashboards)

- Contribute to AI-management technologies (semantic analysis, summarization etc.)

- Building and maintaining an efficient, testable, and scalable codebase

- Interaction and maintain legacy services (Python, Perl)

- Writing technical documentation and ensuring the code is well-documented

- System architecture design: Collaborating with other developers to design and implement an efficient, scalable, and secure system architecture.

- Testing and debugging: Participating in the testing and debugging process to ensure the application meets the quality standards and works as expected.

- Deployment and Monitoring: configuration of deployment and monitoring using tools and infrastructure from the Platform team

About you

- 4+ years of Software Development experience in backend

- 2+ years of asyncio experience in Python development

- Proficiency in FastAPI or similar framework for API endpoint development

- Strong SQL skills, particularly in MySQL, with knowledge in PostgreSQL

- Experience in ORM (prefered SQLAlchemy)

- Experience with message-brokers (RabbitMQ)

- Experience with Pytest for unit testing

- Upper intermediate English and Russian

It would be nice to have

- Experience with Perl

- Experience in DS and ML projects

 Benefits we offer

- Full-time remote job. Though you’re always welcome to spend time with us in our office in Helsinki

- Paid Vacation and Sick leaves. Take the time you need to stay motivated, charged, and balanced. By prior agreement, you can have days off for special occasions

- Generous social benefits package including health insurance, equipment reimbursement, home office moderation bonus, and many more

- Stock options bonus according to the employee stock ownership plan

- You’ll have executive-level visibility into how the company is run and performing. We are always ready to provide dedicated support and fast-track your onboarding, including giving you the tools you need to be successful.

The biggest benefit is our awesome AppFollow team. We're a team of open-minded and friendly high-skilled professionals that enjoy creating a great product, growing together, and supporting each other.

Jump on the board!

AppFollow focuses on representation, fairness, and equal opportunities for all genders, gender identities, ethnicities, nationalities, sexual orientations, religions, disabilities, and ages. We aim to establish and maintain a welcoming and supportive workplace that offers equal growth and development opportunities for all team members across the company. AppFollow is a multicultural company with people from around the globe with different cultures and backgrounds. We expect every team member to be understanding of our differences, respectful, friendly and open. Integrity is essential to creating a welcoming workplace for all, protecting our reputation for each other and for the future of the company. We expect every single team member to commit to the AppFollow culture. We believe in respect, taking care of one another, trust, collaboration and kindness.

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