Organic Basics is on the lookout for an exceptionally structured and disciplined Lead Backend Developer to join our team in Copenhagen. In this role, you’ll be responsible for optimizing our current tech-stack, building our data warehouse and transforming our innovative strategies into systems, tools and automation flows that support all corners of our growing business. The ideal candidate is an opinionated, proactive, automator-by-heart who takes pride and ownership in their work.

The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world. Technology is crucial for humankind to successfully address the climate crisis. Organic Basics is not only a direct-to-consumer brand, but an organization that wants to be proactive in finding technical solutions that can help build a better tomorrow and inspire change across the fashion industry as a whole.

Ready to play a key part in creating the future of sustainable fashion? Then read on!

As our Lead Backend Developer, you will:

• Be in charge of designing and building our future tech stack in collaboration with the Head of Tech.

• Build our data warehouse from scratch together with our Business Intelligence team, and work on making the data accessible and visual for the rest of the company.

• Build tools and automated processes in collaboration with our performance marketing team to enable scaling up marketing efforts across all of our acquisition channels.

• Build solutions, integrations and automations that enable our different teams to perform their job effectively and without friction.

• Optimize and expand upon integrations between purchasing systems, inventory management systems as well as B2C and B2B sales channels.

• Be a key part in defining how we approach future cutting edge tech projects and how to implement our open source strategy. 

• Define and evaluate on technical roadmaps together with team leads, propose improvements, and architect solutions to meet our ever-changing business needs.

• Monitor and maintain data pipelines and the aforementioned data warehouse.

• Integrate the data warehouse with our eCommerce website, built on the Shopify platform.

Who you are:

• You are a developer with a strong sense of pride in your work.

• You are not afraid to take on responsibility.

• You have an opinion on how to build the best solution for the long-term without sacrificing short-term goals.

• You have at least 4 years of professional developer experience, including time at a high-growth eCommerce organization or other tech organizations.

• You have a strong understanding of software engineering principles and fundamentals.

• You get instant gratification from improving and making other people’s work more efficient and structured.

• You simply love working, cleaning and manipulating data.

• You are proficient in Python, Node.js or Ruby.

• You are skilled at working with and designing RESTful APIs.

• Knowledgeable about modern relational databases.

• Experienced in agile development and continuous delivery.

Extra credits:

• Experience working with GraphQL APIs.

• Experience working with Vue, React or similar.

• Experience working with blockchain.

• A passion for building and showing the way to a sustainable future.

What we offer:

• Healthy vegetarian catered lunch.

• Our own yoga class every Thursday.

• Beers and good tunes every Friday.

• Monthly social activities.

• Unlimited organic coffee, tea, fruit and a selection of healthy (and not so healthy) snacks.

• A flat hierarchy and an entrepreneurial team with high ambitions.

• A challenging, fast-paced, and highly dynamic environment.

• High expectations and challenges to help you reach your highest potential.

• Access to a big network of business partners, advisors, and professionals.

• An international and exciting working environment with employees from more than 12 different nationalities.

We are committed to creating a diverse culture and working environment, so we encourage everyone to apply for the position, regardless of national origin, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, disability or age.