Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll work across the stack and be responsible for building scalable platform services and systems. You’ll work closely with other engineers to build and ship key features. We are detail oriented and value clean, modular, and high-performing code. You'll help architect and build our internal standards and frameworks. We love engineering-wide consistency in code and have huge ambitions on both client and server side.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, build and maintain complex backend systems
• Collaborate with other engineers, PMs and non-technical stakeholders to develop and ship features
• Design, build, and maintain our API’s
• Write efficient, modular, and reusable libraries and abstractions
• Find and solve performance issues
• Participate in code reviews
• Communicate best practices to the team
• Mentor junior engineers

Qualifications and Skills:

• 7+ years of full time engineering experience
• Experience building complex architecture systems from the ground up, experience with backend architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Ability to design clean APIs and understanding of performance issues
• Experienced with software engineering best practices – design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing, etc.
• Engineering experience in TypeScript, GoLang, Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, React, AWS
• Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
• Solid CS fundamentals – including data structures and algorithms
• Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses

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