Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Confidently deliver high-quality software by applying critical thinking to products, requirements, and processes
• Work closely with clients to influence technical product decisions and business goals
• Stay up to date with the landscape of software engineering best practices, tools, and frameworks
• Have professional programming experience - at least 5 years
• Understand various software architectures and adapt/compose solutions to unique problems with sustainable and reusable solutions
• Help mentor and coach a project team towards shared goals and outcomes
• Navigate difficult conversations by providing constructive feedback to teams and clients
• Identify obstacles to ensure quality, improve user experience, and software development processes
• Be self-aware of limitations, curious to learn new solutions, and receptive to feedback
• Guide your team to understand and work through changing priorities by bringing positive energy
• Communicate and simplify complex problems to foster understanding across multidisciplinary teams
• Apply knowledge and findings at an organizational scale

Requirements

• Driven by curiosity and enthusiastic about learning new technologies
• Motivated by solving problems and finding creative solutions
• Believe in autonomy and taking initiative
• Professional programming experience of at least 5+ years
• In-depth experience with one server-side programming language such as Java, Kotlin, C#, Node.js, Python, or Go
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, or MongoDB
• Eager to share knowledge through mentorship, code reviews, and pair programming
• Experience developing apps for cloud providers such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or others
• Familiarity with cloud utilities like CLI tools and consoles
• Experience developing RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL APIs
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to assist teammates with complex issues by breaking down tasks
• Effective communication of system architecture and development decisions
• Strong appreciation for CI/CD pipelines and experience setting up deployment pipelines

Nice to Have

• Experience with infrastructure as code concepts such as CloudFormation, Terraform, or Azure Resource Manager
• Familiarity with building highly available and scalable systems
• Experience with worker/message queues and Pub/Sub systems
• Knowledge of observability tools like monitoring and logging
• Experience with platform migration from on-premise to cloud solutions
• Designing authentication and authorization flows for APIs
• Engagement in thought leadership through blogs, Stack Overflow, or Git Gists
• Familiarity with CMS platforms like Optimizely, dotCMS, or AEM

Qualifications

• Professional programming experience of 5+ years
• Experience with server-side programming languages such as Java, Kotlin, C#, Node.js, Python, or Go
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
• Experience developing cloud-based applications and APIs

Benefits & Perks

• Healthcare benefits - Medical, Vision, Dental (including 100% coverage for individual medical premiums)
• Life & Disability Insurance
• 401K matching
• Flexible paid time off and paid holidays
• Parental Leave
• Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Additional benefits as determined during the hiring process