Head of Backend

Remote
Full-time
Visa Sponsorship

About the role

Job Summary

You can be part of a small development team within a high-growth startup. As we are scaling the company, we are looking for a Senior Backend Developer who can help us expanding and consolidating our existing micro-services infrastructure. The perfect candidate would be an experienced backend developer, with experience in Go, NodeJS, PHP, relational databases, distributed system and security.

Role and Responsibilities:

  • Improve, expand, scale and consolidate the current backend architecture of Akiflow
  • Develop new rest APIs for internal and external usage
  • Develop new integrations with third parties, maintain and expand the existing ones
  • Develop new internal tools
  • Work on improving the security level of Akiflow
  • Contribute to defining the software lifecycle of the app
  • Understand the goals of Akiflow and be proactive in suggesting innovative features and solutions
  • Very occasionally interact with customers to triage bugs

Knowledge and Skills

  • 6+ year in backend development
  • Go, NodeJS and PHP (minor)
  • Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational database and caching systems.
  • Knowledge of unix-based systems, docker and kubernates
  • Experience in cloud services (GCP, AWS or others)
  • Experience in building and consuming rest API and OAuth2.
  • Experience in scaling infrastructures.
  • Experience in software development, algorithms, data structures, etc.
  • Knowledge about monitoring and logging tools
  • Subversioning system (git)
  • Strong spirit of collaboration
  • Flexible, can-do attitude.
  • Precision and care for UX/UI.
  • Good knowledge of English (spoken and written)

About Akiflow

The company, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Padua, Italy, is led by CEO Nunzio Martinello, with co-founder Sebastiano Favaro. It has a lean team of 18 and is currently active in the market. The company participated in Batch S20, signaling engagement with accelerator programs. Its mission is to reduce cognitive overload, distractions, overscheduling, and context switching to help people stay productive and happy in the modern work environment.

Required skills

Go
Google Cloud
Node.js
PHP
PostgreSQL
Docker

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Job details

Salary

$80,000 - $120,000

Equity

0.2% - 1.2%

Location

Remote

Experience

11+ years

Company

NameAkiflow
IndustrySaaS

Funding

Total raised

$1.8M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
BBenson Oak Ventures
MMatilde Giglio

Founders

Nunzio Martinello

Nunzio Martinello

CEO & Co-Founder

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Sebastiano Favaro

Sebastiano Favaro

CTO & Co-Founder

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NP

Nicola Possagnolo

Co-Founder

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.