Backend Engineer
Skills
Computer ScienceAmazon Web ServicesAnalyticsDatabasesFinanceFinancial ServicesMinutes
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Experience building and shipping backend systems in production
- Strong fundamentals in system design and backend architecture
- Proficiency in JavaScript / Node.js or similar backend languages
- Experience working with databases NoSQL preferred e.g. MongoDB
- Ability to own projects end-to-end and operate independently
- Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical teams
- Comfort working in a fast-moving evolving startup environment
Nice to have
- Ownership mindset
- Bias for action
- Customer-first thinking
- Resilience and adaptability
- Meaningful builder mindset
Day to day
- Design build and maintain backend services that power the platform and support internal and external product experiences.
- Improve system reliability performance and scalability while helping the platform remain dependable as usage grows.
- Participate in technical design discussions collaborate cross-functionally and contribute to engineering practices documentation and product delivery.
Hiring process
- Application & Coderbyte (async candidate time)
- Recruiting Screen w/ Head of People (15-20 minutes via Google meet)
- Take-Home Challenge & Live Review w/ Sr. Engineer (challenge is async candidate time live review is 45 mins via Google meet)
- Live Coding Challenge w/ Sr. Engineer (90 minutes via Google meet)
- Final Management Meeting w/ SLT (45 minutes via Google meet)