Backend Engineer III

Skills
APIBack-End Web DevelopmentDatabase Management SystemSoftware DevelopmentCode ReviewDatabasesGo
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of building performant APIs
  • Passion for writing excellent code
  • Expertise in database management systems, architecture, and SQL queries
  • Highly motivated self-starter with multi-tasking and prioritization skills to meet deadlines
  • Track record of building, optimizing and scaling web APIs
  • Strong communication and troubleshooting skills
  • Open to on-call rotation

Nice to have

  • Experience scaling APIs
  • NodeJS/PHP/GoLang experience

Day to day

  • Provide value through leading and joining projects to improve the responsiveness and scalability of backend systems
  • Add features to an existing codebase, build new microservices, or migrate data
  • Collaborate to find creative solutions, contribute through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance, and mentoring
  • Design and build performant, reliable, extendable, scalable systems
  • Coordinate with other teams on cross-cutting technical issues and advise on decisions impacting other teams or the company
  • Identify problems and propose team projects to resolve them