Summary
Join our growing company as a Senior Backend Software Engineer and be a critical part of implementing best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You'll work on a cross-functional team, interface with design, front-end, analytics, and teams outside of Engineering. Enjoy working cross-functionally to solve hard problems and make an impact.
Requirements
- Proactively acts without being told what to do. Able to identify areas of improvement and driving best practices to deliver high quality, performant, and scalable solutions
- Develops services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place
- Able to up-level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team
- Able to deal with ambiguity
- Ownership of projects from start to finish. Just because the project has been deployed doesn’t mean it’s done
- Organized and able to effectively plan and breakdown large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver
- Lets others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints
- A creative and innovative problem solver & previous experience working in an agile, startup environment
- Confident in owning your role, and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users
Responsibilities
- Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
- Gather product requirements and write design docs to satisfy product needs
- Drive/Lead full lifecycle of software development: product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance
- Mentor others on best practices and effectively share knowledge
- Ability to effectively communicate development progress to the product lead, engineering manager, and other stakeholders
- Be comfortable introducing new technologies and new ideas as required
- Work effectively as part of a large global team
- Attend and engage in scrum ceremony meetings, team parties, and manager 1:1s
- Provide feedback to co-workers in written and verbal form and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers
