Senior Back End Developer | Data Platform

RELEX Solutions is at the forefront of developing data-driven supply chain and retail planning software. Our innovative platforms have the capacity to enhance adaptability, efficiency, and sustainability within the consumer goods and retail value chain. Our work makes a tangible impact, reducing waste, boosting profitability, and delivering value to our customers through our powerful software platform. 

The Price & Promotion R&D organization, centrally located in Stockholm, Sweden, is undergoing global growth. We’re very excited to grow our footprint in the American market and understand that to successfully do so, expanding our team to include talented individuals in North America is key. You'll get the chance to be in on the ground floor, shaping how we operate in the U.S. while contributing to something big and impactful. 

Willingness and interest in working in a global technology company, including occasional travel, is a key attribute of successful applicants to this role.  

Technology at RELEX Price & Promotion 

The RELEX Price and Promotion application runs cloud-native on Google Cloud Platform and is a mix of Golang backend services and a Typescript/React single-page application. Our data platform also runs using Golang and Cadence/Temporal workflows, ingesting and enriching millions of rows of raw customer data into a hybrid data layer driven by ClickHouse and Postgres. We serve these enormous data sets and sales forecasts through a mix of pre-calculated and on-the-fly analytics that must be both user-friendly and responsive.   

We offer flexibility in our work arrangements, allowing you to choose between remote or in-office work. Respect and collaboration are core to our culture, and we prioritise a genuine work-life balance while ensuring we deliver an exceptional product.  

About the Position: 

As a Senior Back End Developer, you will join our Data Platform Team, working with a group of people dedicated to ensuring rapid client system integration, robust data management, and a scalable analytics engine. Our software engineers ship new functionality, integrations, and infrastructure to production every day. They do not limit their scope to building an analytics platform but build mission-critical systems that our customers rely on in their daily work. Together, we make sure that the product is user-friendly, fast, powerful, and intuitive. 

Join our Data Platform Team as Senior Back End Developer and this is some of what you’ll be doing: 

• Design and develop robust software solutions to support Relex Price & Promotion business-critical systems.
• Improve the scalability and performance of our data pipelines to serve our growing customer base.
• Support and enhance our existing data platform team with deployment tools and pipelines.
• Innovate and implement new features, ensuring seamless integration into our existing models.
• Optimize the way we evaluate and monitor our data and system performance.
• Support the US local operations and sales teams with expert knowledge of our technology stack and integration methods.  

As a Senior Engineer in our organization, we also expect you to focus on results, proactively communicate and document your work, and understand the problem space before developing solutions. You will guide and unblock your team, serve as a technical resource, and seek design input when necessary.Your role includes making informed decisions about technical debt, communicating technical advice to non-technical members, and writing and driving design documents to resolution. You will coach new peers, improve code structure for testability, mentor junior members, provide actionable feedback, ensure team alignment, and help onboard new colleagues. 

We’re Looking For: 

• An advanced degree in a quantitative field (e.g., computer science, stats, physics, engineering).
• Solid experience in software engineering in a production environment.
• Experience designing and implementing applications and tools for consolidating and processing large volumes of data.
• Knowledge of data manipulation for analysis, including querying data, defining metrics, or transforming data to effectively evaluate a hypothesis.
• Experience building integrations serving large-scale data to downstream systems, ideally customer-facing systems.
• Willingness and interest in occasionally traveling to Europe for closer collaboration with the central R&D team. 

Tech We Use:  

• Go, Python
• BigQuery and Dataflow
• Cadence and Google Platform products for orchestration and data analysis
• Kubernetes, ClickHouse 

Our US Office:    

RELEXians can be found around the world, and while we have team members working in 30 states, here, our main office is in Atlanta, Georgia. With a new, inviting and cool office space in Colony Square, when you’re not travelling to customers or working from home, you can explore all there is to do in the area or bring along your pet for a change of scenery. Your future colleagues champion our world-class product and value our approach to flexibility and work-life balance. Our transparent culture is second to none, so don’t be surprised at our impressive development and progression opportunities!    

Across RELEX, our people are supported and rewarded. In the US, we go even further. As well as:  

• Competitive compensation
• The choice to work wherever and however you are most productive
• 15 days of paid time off, 12 paid sick days, and 13 company holidays   

We also offer up to 2 paid volunteer and charity days a year, a generous $500 work-from-home stipend and maternity and paternity leave that covers 12 weeks at full pay (after that, you can take time off unpaid or use your vacation days – it’s up to you). And of course we offer all standard health benefits with various plans to choose from. We’re always ready to welcome new RELEXians to our team because your enthusiasm and expertise allow us to keep innovating and creating the future of planning for retail and consumer brands. If you’re ready to be part of our growth, apply now.