Headquarter: Cologne. Further offices planned in Berlin and Barcelona. You can also work completely remote.

Start: Asap – latest by April/May 2021

VATION offers tech-enabled health coaching powered by humans, not bots, to help people build healthy habits and achieve their fitness goals.

Imagine doing sports every day because you want to. VATION motivates you by giving you an accountability partner. You get video calls, phone calls, and WhatsApp messages from your dedicated health expert to get moving as well as weekly plans completely customized to you and your needs.

We use psychology, expert personal trainers and cutting-edge technology to help you integrate sports into your daily life no matter whether you are in the gym, at home, in the office or on the road. We want to make it as simple as possible for you to move and through this sustainably build a healthy habit to do sports.

Who we are?
We are a team of sport enthusiasts, psychologists, founders and doers, trainers and athletes, data scientists and engineers. We’ve worked for start-ups and corporations, in gyms and for first class sport clubs. VATION is already the second company of Marik, Marius and Tobias. Since the beginning, we’ve been supported by renowned investors.

Our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv5z6CyGUazD5hellfa3nGA/videos

Incentives
– Greenfield project, flexible tech stack and tooling, automated deployments and end to end responsibility – you build it, you run it
– Opportunity to join a fast growing company. If you want to grow, join a growing team
– Possibility to make a strong impact where you help build a new product category leader in the health industry
– Culture based on extreme transparency, honesty and direct feedback. No red tape and no beating around the bush
– You will work on meaningful and challenging problems with smart people who care
– Fast paced environment where we value the output and commitment
– Direct contact and close relationship with founders
– Flexible working environment (geographically and working hours)
– Your tech and hardware setup is up to you, no internal roadblocks – we’ll give you all the tools you need so you can concentrate on coding the best you can

Responsibilities
– Executing full lifecycle software development
– Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code
– Working together with your colleagues to identify and implement technical designs
– Developing applications (front-end, back-end, mobile) according to the agreed specifications
– Maintain and improve existing codebases and peer review code changes
– Enhance applications by identifying opportunities for improvement, making recommendations and designing and implementing systems
– Improving system quality by identifying issues and common patterns, and developing standard operating procedures
– Provide written knowledge transfer material

Qualifications
– Strong tech background, jack of all trades. It’s ok if you have have a strong preference for a domain as long as you are proficient with other areas of the stack too
– Ability to work independently and drive topics end to end – concept, design, build, ship and run
– Ability to make the right trade offs between solution perfection and time to market – get 80% of the outcome with 20% of the effort
– Ability to adapt quickly and learn new technologies, tools and frameworks fast
– Ability to bring clarity to ambiguous situations and drive outcomes to the finish line
– Strong communication skills – you are able to explain complex concepts in simple terms and to summarize ideas with a good balance between not enough information and too much context

Tech Stack (evolving fast)
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes
Docker
Node.js
React
React Native (with expo)
Typescript
GraphQL
Postgres

Contact information
Break the ice with a CV or LinkedIn profile and let’s get the conversation started! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us via team@vation.io.