Software Engineer - Backend

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

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field
• A few years of experience building web applications
• Experience or strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
• Experience implementing highly-available distributed systems/microservices
• Experience building scalable backend APIs
• Experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred
• Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus
• Strong belief in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• Attention to detail and passion for correctness
• Comfortable learning new technologies and systems
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action