Software Engineer | Backend  

Responsibilities:

• Creates high performance, reusable, and reliable code

• Designs, builds, and maintains APIs, user-facing experiences, services, and systems

• Ensures best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications and platforms

• Delivers new product functionality in the shape of private services and public APIs

• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand requirements and identify backend deliverables

• Ensures high availability and reliability of existing platforms

• Debugs production issues across services at multiple levels of the stack and explains both short and long-term solutions with trade-offs

• Identifies and corrects bottlenecks, and fixes bugs

• Works with other engineers in your team to improve performance, enhance code quality, and establish best practices

• Facilitates collaboration with other engineers and product designers to address and solve problems

• Communicates and translates technical issues to non-technical team members

• Evaluates new technologies relevant to the advancement of products

We are looking for an Associate/Senior Software Engineer (Backend) who will build highly responsive backend services to integrate seamlessly with our mobile and web platforms, and other systems. He/she will be working with a multi-functional engineering team and product designers, taking on challenging problems and developing solutions with little to no assistance.

Requirements:

• Solid experience building distributed highly scalable back-end applications

• Comfortable in building and scaling systems in a growing services infrastructure

• Experience with NodeJS, Python, and GraphQL frameworks

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and Google Cloud GCP)

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database technologies

• Experience with Google Firebase

• Experience with data mapping, ETL integration, and data migration

• Experience with caching technologies such as Redis

• Experience with other development tools such as Docker, Git

• Experience with authentication and authorization management

• Experience with writing unit tests

• Familiarity with the entire development lifecycle

• Passion for writing clean, readable, and scalable code

• Curiosity to drill into complex issues and solve problems with a cross-functional team

• Strong understanding of and experience in automated unit and functional testing

• Familiarity with front-end frameworks (React Native / React) is a plus