Nicosia, Cyprus Hybrid Employment

Wheely is hiring a (Senior) Backend Engineer, Marketplace

About the Role

Develop and maintain scalable backend services that power core marketplace functionality, ensuring high availability and efficient data processing.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize backend services for marketplace operations
  • Design system architecture to support high-traffic environments
  • Collaborate with frontend teams to integrate APIs
  • Ensure data consistency across distributed systems
  • Improve system reliability and fault tolerance
  • Monitor performance and address bottlenecks
  • Implement secure and efficient database queries
  • Support deployment and CI/CD pipelines
  • Troubleshoot production issues in real time
  • Write clean, maintainable code with testing coverage
  • Participate in code reviews and technical planning
  • Work with product teams to define feature requirements
  • Maintain documentation for systems and workflows
  • Integrate third-party services and APIs
  • Follow best practices for authentication and access control
  • Optimize for low-latency and high-throughput operations
  • Contribute to disaster recovery strategies
  • Ensure compliance with data protection standards
  • Evaluate new technologies for system improvements
  • Support on-call rotations for critical services
  • Drive initiatives to improve code quality
  • Collaborate on scalability testing and capacity planning
  • Refactor legacy components for better performance
  • Promote observability through logging and metrics
  • Assist in defining service level objectives

Compensation

Competitive salary and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid work model with flexibility

Team

Collaborative engineering team focused on marketplace systems

Tech Stack

  • Primary languages include Go and Python
  • Services run on Kubernetes with Docker
  • Cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
  • Databases include PostgreSQL and Redis
  • Monitoring via Prometheus and Grafana
  • CI/CD powered by GitHub Actions
  • APIs designed with Protocol Buffers
  • Event streaming with Apache Kafka
  • Configuration management using Terraform
  • Logging through centralized ELK stack

What We Value

  • Ownership of technical solutions from design to deployment
  • Clear communication across technical and non-technical roles
  • Focus on user impact in marketplace interactions
  • Commitment to code quality and system stability
  • Proactive identification of technical risks
  • Collaborative problem solving in cross-functional teams
  • Continuous learning and skill development
  • Transparency in decision-making processes
  • Efficiency without compromising maintainability
  • Respect for time and work-life balance

Available for qualified candidates

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About company
Wheely
Wheely is redefining premium transportation across major cities in Europe, the US, and the Middle East. We blend cutting-edge technology with the craft of five-star chauffeuring to deliver an experience trusted by more than 100,000 active riders and 1,200 corporate accounts. We’re a profitable, fast-growing scale-up with $43M raised and over $100M in annual revenue. Having recently launched in New York City, we’re expanding rapidly across the US and EMEA. If you take pride in your craft and want to help shape the next chapter of our growth, we'd love to hear from you.
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Job Details
Department Marketplace
Category backend
Posted 2 hours ago