Senior Backend Developer

Your Impact

• Build scalable services using modern technology practices
• Continue to improve our existing design patterns, technology standards, technical governance, and methodologies
• Write code that minimizes the appearance of future foreseeable issues and maximizes the flexibility of the codebase
• Improve on our critical applications

Essential skills and qualifications

• Mastery in multiple programming languages and platforms
• Track record of success in building successful projects
• Ability to independently design and deliver features to solve business needs
• Consistently think and act “ahead of the curve”
• Ability to see the problems in advance when working through potential architectures at the design stage
• Bringing your own ideas for improvements and being able to propose alternative solutions
• Ability to break large features down into smaller incremental deliverables

YOU MUST BE

RESPONSIBLE:
Able to work without someone standing over your shoulder

INQUISITIVE:
Willing to learn new techniques and technologies

ADAPTABLE:
New situations happen

A good person

Useful Experience (Not required)

• Experience in rapid development short release cycles
• Evaluating employment candidates and the ongoing work of existing subordinates and mentees
• Container Orchestration such as Kubernetes
• Scalable databases such as ClickHouse, ElasticSearch, or Cassandra
• Statistical literacy (e.g. knowing the tradeoffs of weighted average vs average)
• Basic machine learning and data engineering
• Setting up full end-to-end CI and development environments.
• Frontend dev process
• Serverless environments (e.g. Cloud Functions, etc)
• Displaying data in an understandable way