Responsibilities

Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our 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 as it relates to your role

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

You have a Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related field

A minimum of 5 years of experience with building scalable web applications

You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js

You have designed and implemented highly-available distributed systems/microservices

You have experience building platforms that expose scalable backend APIs

You have deep experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred

Understanding monitoring and alerting platforms is a plus

You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices

You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness

You are comfortable with ambiguity and scoping solutions with your teammates

You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

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