Senior Backend Engineer
Senior Backend Engineer owns major codebase sections, designs and ships high-performance features using TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Requires 5+ years backend experience, bachelor's/master's in CS/engineering, and collaborative problem-solving in a startup environment.
About the job
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship cutting-edge products and features at lightning speed without compromising on quality.
- Drive continuous improvements in our engineering processes, tools, and systems to scale both our codebase and team productivity.
- Collaborate with colleagues across product, design, engineering, and analytics to solve challenging and impactful problems in a data-driven experimentation culture.
- Contribute to the estimations, planning and execution of projects, features, and integrations.
- Maintain and elevate our existing codebase by developing, releasing, and maintaining backend services and/or infrastructure.
- Write clean, fully-tested, high-performance code that sets the standard for excellence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years as a Backend focused Software Engineer, preferably building high-performance internal platforms to streamline internal business operations, developer experience, or devops.
- 3+ years utilizing our tech stack (Typescript, Node.js, Prisma, PostgreSQL, AWS) or confidence and excitement about cross-training and up-skilling!
- Do your own stunts and ship fast. You like to build and ship new things, can independently take a project from idea through implementation, and run toward hard problems.
- Think work should feel like play. You value a very collaborative, close-knit team and care about having fun and making an impact at work.
- Want to be deeply involved in product and design. You are not only passionate about engineering but also have a desire to build a product end-to-end, through the design, coding, testing, and deployment phases.
- Think from first principles. Ask why, challenge assumptions, and value the right answer over being right.
Nice to Haves
- Startup or Scale Up experience. You have that dog in you; you’re resilient and persevere through challenges.
- Interviewing Experience. We’re quickly growing our Engineering function and expect our Engineers to help us do so!
- Energized by our mission. Our mission defines everything we do, we need engineers hungry to improve people’s health by making it easy to eat well.
Skills
TypeScript, Node.js, Prisma, Postgres, AWS
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