Senior Backend Engineer
$230,000–$230,000 year
RemoteUnited Kingdom or United States
United Kingdom or United StatesRemoteFull Time$230,000–$230,000 yearSenior LevelSmall
Full TimeSenior LevelSmall
Job Summary
Design, build, and ship end-to-end features and products that help developers grow their business while maintaining reliability, scalability, and performance. Debug production issues, contribute to code reviews, and participate in the on-call rotation to improve system stability. Collaborate with the team to scope projects, contribute to architectural discussions, and mentor junior engineers. Over the first year, evolve from implementing initial projects to specifying and architecting medium-to-large initiatives with full system knowledge.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working as a software engineer designing and maintaining complex/large/growing systems
- comfortable writing and debugging SQL
- love debugging and finding the root cause of production issues
- love shipping good products
- excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages
- know how to ship high quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles
- collaborate well with others and can communicate effectively in a fully-remote culture
- proactive. When you see something broken, you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements
- versatile and a fast learner
Desired Qualifications
- experience in Python
- experience in PostgreSQL
- experience building SDKs
- shipped a mobile app with in-app purchases
- some experience with React and SPA applications
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