About us

Beat is a mobile app that transforms the way people move in their cities. Tap on a button on your smartphone and you get a ride in just a few minutes.

Beat started its life as Taxibeat, 6 years ago in Europe and 3 years ago expanded its operations to Peru where it serves millions of rides every single month. It currently operates in Greece, Peru, Chile and Colombia with many new markets coming in the next months and years. Its great success was attested by the acquisition from Daimler A.G. and Beat is already establishing its position in Latin America which is current focus of expansion.

Beat's vision is to offer an affordable and efficient way for people to move in their cities.

How are we going to achieve that?

By constantly growing our world class operations and engineering team. We are a “product focused - engineering culture” organisation, with a focus on developing projects such as carpooling, automated pricing, advanced route planning by using microservices, machine learning and AI. Sounds exciting enough?

Find out more about this role below and let's transform the future of urban mobility together.

About the role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our fantastic highly skilled development team and to help us manage, develop and extend our robust cloud based infrastructure. Beat has numerous custom, complex systems running in our data centers to provide traffic and routing information. We are looking for someone who loves Linux, who is intimately familiar with cloud infrastructure, and with a strong understanding of scaling and load management.

The successful candidate will be a team player, capable of collaborating in a fast paced, DevOps oriented environment.

What you'll do day in day out:

• Help us build our future container-based production environments.
• Write automation tools for system and application deployment, maintenance and monitoring.
• Help solve business needs with technology by evaluating different technology options and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains - will be expected to participate in on-call escalations to troubleshoot customer facing issues.

What you need to have:

• Experience managing Amazon Web Services (we are heavily integrated into AWS)
• Experience with container orchestration tools like Swarm or Kubernetes (This would be a major plus)
• Expertise in troubleshooting Linux servers, databases and web servers
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

What it's nice to have:

• Knowledge of Agile methodologies
• Experience with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Expertise in continuous integration tools like Jenkins
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic

What's in it for you:

• Competitive full time salary
• Private Health Coverage on the Company’s group program
• Beat rides-travel in our city for free, at the tap of a button
• Breakfast, high quality daily lunch on a very low cost, fruit and snacks all day long
• Flexible working hours, top Line tools, Spanish Lessons
• Opportunities to participate in cutting edge trainings and conferences of your choice in Greece and abroad
• A great opportunity to grow and work with the most amazing people in the industry
• Being part of an environment that gives engineers large goals, autonomy and mentoring, which creates incredible opportunities, both for you and the company

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Beat is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion.