Senior Backend Engineer
$14,400,000–$18,000,000 year
HybridReykjavík, Capital Region, Iceland
Job Summary
Design, build, and iterate on frameworks that influence all aspects of the Asana product, developing new APIs that balance usability with capability to support the feature-rich web application. Analyze complex systems to uncover issues, root causes, and areas for improvement while championing code quality and best practices through example. Partner with product engineering teams to identify opportunities that enable faster development and collaborate to build new functionality through intuitive building blocks. Write clean, beautiful code, striving to leave it in a better state than you found it.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of BE experience working in large, well-maintained codebases writing and shipping production code
- Ability to learn quickly and transition seamlessly between different areas of a complex codebase
- Sound autonomous judgment when balancing moving quickly with producing quality, long-term maintainable code
- Focus on establishing and spreading high quality software engineering patterns
- Familiarity with React/GraphQL ecosystem
- Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a willingness to learn and leverage them to enhance productivity, collaboration, or decision-making
Desired Qualifications
- TypeScript (preferred)
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