Senior Software Engineer - Backend

What you’ll do

• Work with your teammates to build highly scalable solutions that enable positive impact for our users and our business
• Develop new features as well as tools, frameworks, and workflows in support of rapidly emerging business and project requirements
• Drive new projects, from conceptualization to deployment
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, and maintain high standards for code quality, maintainability, security, and application design
• Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities
• Participate in on-call rotation to respond to, triage, mitigate, and resolve production issues 
• Create run-books, metrics, and dashboards

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a backend Software Engineer
• 3+ years of professional experience in a fast-paced SaaS or a similar business environment
• Experience with server-side Java and Python software development, with modern frameworks and methodologies, such as Spring and Django
• Proficiency with SQL, RDBMS (ideally PostgreSQL), and familiarity with ORMs
• Ability to visualize a proposed system and be able to build it
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in complex systems
• Ability to communicate effectively within the team and across the organization while sharing insights and updates and collaborating to achieve project goals

Preferred skills

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, such as GCP and AWS
• Familiarity working with Linux-based systems as well as containerization and orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with caching mechanisms such as Redis, Memcached, and Varnish
• Familiarity with common DevOps tools and practices, such as Git and CI/CD
• Familiarity with SOC2 / ISO 27001 security frameworks
• Preference for someone who can work in the Pacific / Mountain time zones