Backend Software Engineer

Join our team as a Backend Software Engineer, where you will independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to find solutions to customer challenges, improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of our existing systems, and promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship. Additionally, you will add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure, enhance our testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure, and keep extremely sensitive data compartmentalized and secure.

• Independently own large-scoped projects from initial discovery through launch, focusing on outcomes and customer impact.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to find solutions to customer challenges and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing systems.
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing, and mentorship, while enhancing testing, monitoring, and continuous deployment infrastructure.

• You are self-driven and like to work with others to remove roadblocks
• You are curious, and love to explore and learn new technologies
• You have demonstrated the ability to build, deploy and maintain large-scale, complex applications
• You care more about solutions and impacting the customer experience than using a particular tool or framework
• As a Software Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better
• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome
• Interest in helping junior developers and contributing to team knowledge sharing
• Experience collaborating with designers and product managers on feature development
• Proficiency in server-side languages like Python, Java, Node.js, or Ruby (Go experience is a plus)
• Solid SQL skills and understanding of database fundamentals
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (basic deployment and monitoring)
• Minimum 4 years of professional development experience