Senior Backend Engineer

Jobot
Alameda, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/2/2022 CLOSED ON 12/6/2022

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Job Description

This Jobot Job is hosted by: Tommy Pham
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Salary: $120,000 - $160,000 per year

A bit about us:

You will work primarily on the backend of the overall application, but will have opportunities to contribute to the full platform. You will get deep into the backend implementation of features, including the database, APIs, and at the same time, ensure we are following the best-of-breed approach across the stack. You will be taking ownership of features and develop them with scalability and flexibility in mind as we develop and iterate our platform. You will work closely with the rest of the engineering team, as well as product and business teams, to ensure our product provides value to our impact investors and community financial partners. This role reports to the head of engineering.

What you'll achieve
  • Work with product and engineering teams to build new features, focusing on the backend
  • Lead architecture and design of new features working with the rest of the team
  • Build tools to support simplicity and productivity for the whole company
  • Contribute to growth of engineering team, culture, and processes
  • Work across the entire tech stack to improve infrastructure, performance, processes, and code

Responsibilities
  • Lead the architecture, design and development of features from the backend perspective
  • Bring in best practices and designs to ensure a scalable and maintainable platform
  • Lead design and development of new core APIs, services and backend logic
  • Be self-sufficient and take responsibility for delivering projects to production
  • Work closely with front end developers to implement complete solutions
  • Provide mentorship to team members and participate in process improvements


Why join us?

Benefits
  • Company-paid health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision
  • Unlimited PTO, with a minimum of 14 days off required annually
  • 401(k), with company match, after 6 months of employment
  • Highly collaborative and flexible remote work environment with a fully distributed team
  • Quarterly wellness stipend
  • Professional development opportunities


Job Details

Qualifications
  • Seeking a remote-first role working with people who care deeply about their impact on local communities
  • Comfortable debugging and have an appetite to refactor code and follow best practices
  • Experience with backend development tools and frameworks (Node)
  • Experience working with front end frameworks (React, Vue) and systems
  • Experience with relational databases (MySQL) schema design and optimizations
  • Understand when to favor pragmatism over perfection and vice versa
  • Excellent problem-solving skills
  • Ability to collaborate in a team-based environment while understanding and solving technical issues with independent discretion
  • Effective oral and written communication and interpersonal skills (English)
  • Expert attention to detail and follow-up skills; customer-focused and results-oriented attitude
  • Willingness and belief in continuous improvement and learning
  • Open, inclusive mindset
  • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fluid start-up environment

Current stack includes:
  • Javascript/Typescript/Python
  • React
  • Node, MySQL, Redis
  • AWS


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Salary : $120,000 - $160,000

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