# Staff Software Engineer - Backend

**Company:** [Hive](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hive)
**Location:** Seattle, WA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** REST APIs, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Data Ingestion, Task Processing, Tdd, Owasp, Scalable Code, Secure Coding, Web Applications
**Posted:** 2022-04-21

> Builds and improves scalable backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, data processing, and distributed task systems. Requires 8+ years experience with highly-available systems, Bachelor's in CS, and strong communication skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
- Write and maintain scalable, performant and secure code that can be shared across platforms
- Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, processes and security
- Practice test-driven development
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
- Participate in on-call rotations, as needed, to ensure prompt and effective resolution of critical technical issues
- Utilize OWASP top 10 techniques to secure code from vulnerabilities
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling
- Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority

## Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
- 8+ years of experience building web applications
- Successfully implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices
- Delivered scalable backend APIs
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

## Preferred Requirements
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
- Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
- Experience architecting and developing solutions to ambiguous problems with significant impact
- Interest and ability to learn other coding languages

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