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Akvo | Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm | Full time | Platform Engineer | REMOTE | http://akvo.org/about-us/ Akvo is a non profit foundation, creating open source software and sensors. We focus on making international development and country governance more effective, transparent and collaborative. Our Development team is a diverse and distributed group across EU with clusters in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Barcelona. == Main tasks and responsibilities * Develop common/shared platform services in Akvo * Together with the team lead, coordinate architecture concerns between products * Provide technical direction to the rest of teams * Research existing FOSS components and assess the trade-offs (build vs buy) * Collaborate with QA and Ops teams to make better and more reliable software. == Requirements and competencies * “Strong opinions, weakly held” * You have developed complex systems under organizational constraints * You like mentoring developers and you're advocating good programming practices * You have JVM and Linux experience (performance and memory troubleshooting) * You have experience from fast growing organizations and/or Lean startup methodology == Interview process You'll have interviews via Skype/video, with Platform team lead, Head of Development and your potential colleagues. Please send motivation letter and resume to Iván Perdomo <work[at]akvo.org> More details at https://goo.gl/ZLnWwc