Backend Engineer

About The Role

• Build out features for our backend services, which support our iOS, Web, and Android applications.

• Optimize our system and implement solutions to support our growing user base.

• Scale and maintain our backend infrastructure & deployment systems.

• Work closely with our Product team to build and deliver features in a fast-paced, agile environment.

• Advocate for engineering standards & best practices and automate processes and tooling.

• Contribute to our comprehensive automated test suites.

• Take ownership over features from development through QA, delivery and ongoing maintenance.

• Participate in product discussions and use your development expertise to inform roadmap decisions within the business.

About You

• You have 3+ years experience building web applications with at least one MVC web framework like ASP.NET Core, Laravel, Ruby on Rails, Django, or Express.

• You have experience writing and optimizing queries both in raw SQL and using an ORM, and have experience designing database schema.

• You write clear, maintainable, and well-tested code.

• You are an advocate for automated testing and understand its importance in delivering features reliably.

• You are a team-player with strong communication skills.

• You are naturally curious and are committed to improving your own skillsets as well as those of your team members.

• You take ownership of your work and strive to be an accountable member of the development team.

• While startup experience is not required, a desire to work at a startup and an understanding of the unique aspects of a startup environment are essential.

• Understanding of Linux systems and experience with AWS managed services.

• Experience using Elasticsearch and Redis or other NoSQL databases.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and/or event-driven systems is a plus.

• Prior experience with C# and PHP.

Job Benefits