Do you want to be part of a fast-growing tech-company?Do you want to work with modern technologies and at the same timework to improve people’s health and reduce the world's energy usage?

We are looking for a Senior Backend Developer to join the Airthings for Business Software team and bring our solutions to the next level.

Airthings is a tech company creating indoor air quality monitors and solutions for homeowners and building managers. We are headquartered in the heart of Oslo with customers in more than 50 countries. We are 140 employees and counting, including scientists, engineers, developers and visionaries. Airthings is on a mission to ensure people around the world take control of their air quality through simple, sustainable and accessible technology solutions – making radon and air quality solutions an essential and universal element for every building or home.

The team you will be working in is mainly responsible for the integration services available for customers in the business segment, including RESTful API, Webhooks and MQTT. These integrations are helping our customers access data, and find ways to improve indoor air quality and reduce energy usage in their buildings. We work agile and are continuously improving the way we work. 

The integration team consists of 3 developers and a Product owner. As a member of the team you will have a great impact on how we build our services, technologies we use and our priorities moving forward. 

Our cloud services provide a solid platform, but Airthings is growing fast and so is our customer base. This creates a greater need to make sure our integration services scale. Our Kotlin backend services are powered by AWS solutions such as ECS, Lambda, S3 etc. and we continue to experiment with different technologies.

We are looking for a team player, intellectually curious and eager to grow with the company. You will work on maturing and maintaining our services developing simple, elegant, tested and maintainable solutions.

• You are an awesome programmer (with knowledge in Kotlin or or similar JVM languages)
• You have a master or a bachelor in software engineering or similar.
• You have at least 3 years of experience as a backend developer
• You have experience working with highly scalable backend solutions that can handle heavy loads and millions of requests.
• You have opinions on best practices when it comes to development methodologies, testing and code quality.
• Experience with event driven architecture (Kafka or Kinesis) / distributed systems and microservices 
• Familiar with DBMS both sql and no-sql
• You care about building the right thing and building the thing right by exploring how to solve problems for our users together with the rest of the team. 
• It is nice if you have experience with infrastructure as code (we use AWS services configured by Terraform) 

First and foremost we are looking for someone who is curious, and is willing to learn and experiment with new technologies, and dive into and help evolve the tech stack that we use today.

Perks & Benefits: 

You get to be a key member of a great international team in Oslo that is becoming a world leader in smart air quality monitoring. Central office located in downtown Oslo, facing the royal castle. Competitive compensation package, competitive salary, social events, health insurance, pensions saving and more: 

• Flexible work hours: Work life balance is important, and we aim to be flexible 
• KPI bonuses: We recognize strong performance and reward with annual bonuses
• Share options: Airthings employees have the opportunity to invest in the company 
• Tasty lunches
• Company retreats: Hiking mountains, skiing down slopes, it's all part of our Norwegian spirit
• Social events: We work hard and play hard with recurring social activities 
• Working for a greater cause, improving people’s health and wellbeing and improving energy efficiency of buildings. 

Our culture: 

We believe that team building and friendly inspiration outside the office is important for our long-term growth. Hence, we aim to facilitate discussions amongst our employees. In other words, our flat structure ensures that your voice will be heard regardless of your position. We are multicultural, intellectually curious and creative thinkers, eager to grow and make a big impact, excellent communicators and collaborators, and interested in health, science and technology. 

What's next? 

Hopefully you have now been inspired to apply for this exciting role and you can apply directly via the apply button.

Our missionAirthings ensures that people around the world recognize the impact of indoor air quality and take control to protect their health through simple, affordable and accurate technology solutions - making radon and indoor air quality monitors an essential and universal element of every building and home. We Dare, Love and Focus!