Backend Engineer, Core Experience
We are one of the fastest-growing podcast & audiobook platforms in Europe and we are now looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join our Core Experience team. Join us on the quest to shape the way people learn, discover, and unwind through audio experiences and thereby enrich lives through listening.
This is the role
You will join our Core Experience team, which owns the systems responsible for ingesting, processing, and managing podcast and audiobook content at scale to ensure that listeners always have fast, reliable access to the content they love.
Your responsibilities will include supporting and developing features that align with our Core Experience strategy, ensuring system stability and optimal performance. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business objectives and propose innovative solutions.
Your primary tasks will involve building and maintaining high-quality features, driving team deliverables, and ensuring robust code quality to create a seamless user experience.
Your main responsibilities in this role:
- Work on high-quality feature implementation in Kotlin, build prototypes, resolve issues, and profile and analyze bottlenecks
- Design robust APIs to support mobile and desktop clients
- Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud
- Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and allow for regression testing
This is you
You’ll thrive in this role if you enjoy collaborating with talented people, all on the same mission to enrich life through listening. In your day-to-day, that means that you are motivated by the opportunity to work and develop our app to create a great user experience for our listeners. We focus on agile methodologies and a customer-centric approach.
You are a collaborative and curious team player who enjoys autonomy and the opportunity to impact the way we work. We appreciate an open, honest, and respectful communication style, a growth mindset, and the ability to work with a wide range of people. We appreciate that everyone is different and we want you to bring your best self to work in whatever form that is.
Experience we’re looking for:
- You have an experience in Kotlin / Java or any other JVM-language
- You have good experience using Spring Boot and experience in developing REST APIs
- You have experience in using PostgreSQL
- You have experience in using PubSub, Kafka or similar messaging solutions
- You have some experience/are willing to working with containers and utilizing tools like Kubernetes
- You have some experience/are willing to work with Async programming
- You have good communication skills in English as this is our company language across our markets
- Having knowledge or experience with GraphQL is a benefit
- Optional but nice-to-have: experience with Python and/or ML engineering tasks – considered a bonus and especially valuable if joining projects that require data processing or machine learning integration
Naturally, being passionate and knowledgeable about podcasts, audio content, media, and entertainment is a big plus!
What We Offer
- Up to six months of fully paid parental leave for all new parents - no matter how you identify or where in the world you live
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for all employees
- Free online therapy sessions through We.Care
- Learning and personal development opportunities to help you thrive and enrich your skills in a fast-paced creator economy
- The chance to make an impact at an international company and see your work pay off immediately
- Delicious lunch with caring colleagues in a vibrant atmosphere
- Salary ranges around 5000 EUR GROSS depending on experience, and seniority.
This is the hiring process
Please share your CV or LinkedIn profile. We’d love to hear why you’re interested in the job, but it’s not a must. If we move forward with your application, here’s what to expect:
- An initial chat with our Tech recruiter
- A chat with Engineering Manager
- A tech case and interview with potential future colleagues
We might tweak the process to keep things smooth and enjoyable. We'll be conducting interviews continuously, aiming for a start date around November 1st or asap after that date.
Can’t wait to hear from you!
Equal Opportunity Employer
Podimo is an equal opportunity employer, and we believe in equal opportunities for all in our workplace. We don’t discriminate based on race, colour, religion, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, age or political orientation, no matter where we operate.
This is us
Founded in Copenhagen in 2019, Podimo is a platform for podcast and audiobook lovers as well as audio content creators. Our app puts a world of podcasts and audiobooks at your fingertips. Our revenue-sharing model rewards creators for making content that people want to hear – whether they have an established following or a niche audience.
We're a courageous and curious bunch. We recognize the value every individual brings, and respect our coworkers’ ideas, opinions, and time. We approach our work with integrity and humility, and believe that we are better together. We have zero time for sharp elbows and big egos.
We’re fiercely passionate about discovering, creating, and obsessing over great stories. We support our creators deeply, and have massive respect for their process as we help them bring their most exciting ideas and stories to life. We love what we do, but more importantly, we have a good time doing it.
We seek to build a company and culture that mirrors the diversity of the world we’re living in. This means; diversity of talent, voices, ideas, and thoughts. That goes both for our brand, our content, our creators, and our teams.
You are welcome at Podimo for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what stories you have playing in your headphones.
- Department
- Tech & Engineering
- Locations
- Vilnius
- Employment type
- Full-time
Vilnius
Workplace & Culture

We're a courageous and curious bunch. We recognize the value every individual brings, and respect our coworkers’ ideas, opinions, and time. We approach our work with integrity and humility, and believe that we are better together. We have zero time for brilliant jerks.
We’re fiercely passionate about discovering, creating, and obsessing over great stories. We support our creators deeply, and have massive respect for their process as we help them bring their most exciting ideas to life. We love what we do, but more importantly, we have a good time doing it.
We seek to build a company and culture that mirrors the diversity of the world we’re living in. This means; diversity of talent, voices, ideas, and thoughts. That goes both for our brand, our content, our creators, and our teams.
You are welcome at Podimo for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what stories you have playing in your headphones.
About Podimo
Founded in Copenhagen in 2019, Podimo is a platform for podcast and audiobook lovers as well as audio content creators. Our app puts a world of podcasts and audiobooks at your fingertips. Our revenue-sharing model rewards creators for making content that people want to hear – whether they have an established following or a niche audience.
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