Role overview

Senior Back End Engineer [Remote-US]

Requirements and responsibilities

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About you

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 5-7 or more years experience in a full stack or backend role
  • Technical skills

About you

  • Professional experience with GoExperience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying high performance client/server systems for mission-critical applicationsComfort working with both relational and non-relational database systemsFamiliarity with a wide variety of messaging systems, with opinions on which to use whenComfort working with cloud-based infrastructure providers and modern CI/CDKnowledge of security and testing best practices
  • Professional experience with Go
  • Experience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying high performance client/server systems for mission-critical applications
  • Comfort working with both relational and non-relational database systems
  • Familiarity with a wide variety of messaging systems, with opinions on which to use when
  • Comfort working with cloud-based infrastructure providers and modern CI/CD
  • Knowledge of security and testing best practices
  • People skillsStrong communication and collaboration skillsGrowth mindset, and the humility to model it for othersWillingness to take initiative and accountabilityPrior experience as a technical lead or people manager
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Growth mindset, and the humility to model it for others
  • Willingness to take initiative and accountability
  • Prior experience as a technical lead or people manager

Details

  • Professional experience with Go
  • Experience designing, developing, debugging, and deploying high performance client/server systems for mission-critical applications
  • Comfort working with both relational and non-relational database systems
  • Familiarity with a wide variety of messaging systems, with opinions on which to use when
  • Comfort working with cloud-based infrastructure providers and modern CI/CD
  • Knowledge of security and testing best practices
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills
  • Growth mindset, and the humility to model it for others
  • Willingness to take initiative and accountability
  • Prior experience as a technical lead or people manager

Bonus points

  • Familiarity with some of the other technologies we use including GraphQL, gRPC, Postgres, Mongo, Snowflake, Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
  • Experience in a financial sector such as insurance, banking, or investing

Additional Details:

  • Benefits: We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
  • Work from Home Equipment: Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
  • Paid Time Off: All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
  • Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
  • Location: We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
  • Hours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.
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