Backend Engineer

Anchr Stockholm Full-time

Salary Competitive

Equity To be negotiated

Anchr is making a discover engine for location-based information and services by creating an ecosystem for location apps and building an interface that makes location apps and app data explorable on one single platform. Anchr saves people time and effort by steering them to the correct location-information, offers and services, as seamlessly as possible. Anchr is currently available as an app, making it easier for users to discover restaurants, reviews, wikipedia-articles and more.

You are a driven team player, love to code and and want to lead the development of our backend infrastructure.

You want to work with improving and developing our algorithms, keep our backend services scalable and with integrating external services.

Stack:

 React Native, JS, Java, Dropwizard, PostgreSQL, AWS (EC2, RDS..)

What we offer:

Salary + sweat equity
Great office space
An environment valuing great software engineering principles
Break things, learn things kind of culture
Experiment with new languages and tools but with focus on getting things done

We’re open to people with various technical backgrounds. Together we'll work hard to build a product that the whole world desperately needs while also making sure to have fun along the way!

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Anchr is your personalised map of your surroundings that allows you to explore, discover and connect to your needs and interests.We have created an ecosystem for location apps and provide you with one platform, one interface - to explore it all. Discover relevant location tied information and services you didn’t know about. See what your friends like and recommend in an area. Anchr helps you know where to go next! A small ambitious team with love for new technologies, software and making a difference. We have a background from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm School of Economics, Cisco and Ericsson.Every day we try to learn something new and we believe learning to be a strong source of motivation. Therefore we strive to provide an environment where uninhibited learning can take place. With that in mind, our team is constantly improving and together we are always trying to outshine ourselves.The cultureWe believe that every team member should feel that they have mandate to make own decisions. Keeping a flat structure allow us to include everyone in the design process and increase our sense of ownership. Decisions are transparent, feedback is a gift and so is a compliment.While we do have fun while we work, we also remember to take time off to have some fun together doing some activities or just hanging out; getting to know each other better.Our office and the incubatorAnchr is a member of the incubator SSE Business Lab. Our modern and comfy office is located close to the subway station Tekniska Högskolan, just around the corner from awesome bars, restaurants, gyms and plenty of commuting options. Free coffee is always brewing and ready at the lobby and every Thursday there is free breakfast as well. You are constantly surrounded by people working with all sorts of different exciting projects and companies.By acquiring a spot at SSE Business Lab, Anchr was verified by the distinguished business leaders Sebastian Siemiatkowski (CEO and founder Klarna), Sebastian Knutsson (founder King), Mikael Schiller (founder Acne Studios), Katarina Martinson (Lundbergföretagen) och Lars Strannegård (President of Stockholm School of Economics).

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