Backend Engineer

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and  business strategy and build novel products and features that our users  will love.

Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design,  development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be  reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and  mocks.

Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated  engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows,  recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow  their technical expertise.

Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues

Ensure compliance with security protocols and data privacy regulations during integration processes

Troubleshoot and optimize application performance to provide optimal experience

Design maintainable database schemas and easy-to-understand data structures

Design technical solutions with little direction or guidance

Engage in the team's organizational processes, such as planning,  backlog refinement, and sprint reviews, to ensure effective  collaboration and feedback

Proactively identify and address potential technical issues and bottlenecks

Required Experience

Minimum 8+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on,  professional software development experience developing distributed  backend systems at scale.

Expertise in Python and Golang, as well as in large-scale Python -> Golang migrations

Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and handling high-throughput workloads

Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as  unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B  testing, code reviews, and documentation

Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.

Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with  teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with  technical and non-technical audiences.

You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.

Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL)

Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, and the ability to design maintainable APIs