About the role
Join the Discoup Team, a Leader in Discount Code and Coupon Portals!
Discoup.com helps millions of users save money online every day through discount codes, cashback opportunities, and exclusive promotional offers.
We are a fast-growing global company operating across seven markets: Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the United States, and Brazil. Our teams are distributed across Italy, Spain and the United States, collaborating closely in an international environment.
We partner with thousands of merchants, advertisers, agencies, affiliate networks, and technology providers to deliver high-performing digital commerce experiences at scale.
As our platform continues to grow, we are investing heavily in engineering excellence, backend scalability, data reliability, and product innovation.
We are looking for a pragmatic and hands-on Engineer with strong backend experience to help us grow our Development function!
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend applications and services.
- Contribute to the development of our core platform (Elixir/Phoenix preferred but any experience with functional languages will serve you well)
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas and queries for high-volume traffic environments.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to deliver reliable and performant features.
- Improve platform reliability, observability, and scalability.
- Participate in architectural discussions and technical decision-making.
- Support API development and integrations with third-party platforms and internal services.
- Contribute to CI/CD improvements, deployment automation, and engineering best practices.
- Help improve code quality through reviews, testing, and documentation.
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong backend engineering experience.
- Excellent knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational database design.
- Experience working with APIs, distributed systems, and high-traffic applications.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Familiarity with cloud environments and containerized deployments.
- Experience with Git workflows and modern development practices.
- Collaborative mindset and strong problem-solving skills.
- Professional proficiency in English.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Experience with Elixir/Phoenix in production environments.
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform.
- Exposure to observability and monitoring tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or ELK.
- Experience working in SaaS, digital marketing, affiliate marketing, or eCommerce.
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and asynchronous systems.
- Frontend experience with modern frameworks (React, Vue, etc.) is appreciated but not required.
- Professional proficiency in Italian.
Why Join Discoup?
- Competitive compensation package aligned with experience and market benchmarks.
- Fully remote setup within Spain or Italy; Budget for Laptop and Home Office equipment.
- International and highly collaborative work environment.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale consumer products used by millions of users.
- Direct impact on architecture, engineering practices, and platform evolution.
- Fast-moving company with strong growth ambitions and long-term opportunities.
- Lean Team of highly skilled developers, marketers, analysts, and product specialists.
Company
Discoup is a global advertising services company that operates a discount code portal, connecting users with brands to deliver discount codes and offers across multiple markets. The company states active presence in seven countries and emphasizes collaboration with merchants and performance marketing networks.
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