Senior Backend Engineer

Position: Senior Backend Engineer - Data Services
Location: Remote
Duration: Full-time

Job Description:

You don’t have to check all the boxes, but these are some of the skills and experiences we think are important for this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or an equivalent amount of experience or training in the industry
• Multiple years of experience working on complex projects in a professional environment with the following expertise:
• Relational database architecture, design, and optimization at high scale
• Hands-on experience with query plans, indexing, blocking, deadlocks, etc. preferably with MS SQL Server/T-SQL
• Object-oriented programming experience with a focus on C# and/or Java development
• Hands-on development experience with Rest APIs and microservices-oriented architecture
• Computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, parallel or distributed systems
• Software engineering skills: componentization, unit test, testing, coding/designing for fault tolerance, etc.
• Technical design skills in backend and high-scale systems
• Experience in a DevOps model including SDLC best practices, deployments, incidents, troubleshooting, etc.
• Clear and concise communication skills
• A track record and passion for transparency

How you work / what motivates you:

• Customer focus and a love for solving customer problems
• Ability to rapidly prototype ideas and code for production
• A security-oriented mindset and desire to build robust and secure systems
• Collaborating with others to build something with lasting impact.
• A love for learning and a desire to grow and to help improve the team around you.

Extra credit areas of knowledge:

• Experience in implementation and support of full-text search engines and technologies: Lucene/Solr
• DBA experience: backup/restore, roles/permissions, archiving, etc
• Cloud platforms such as AWS (and Azure): EC2, S3, CloudWatch, Databases, etc.
• In depth expertise in caching systems and web servers
• Experience running either (or both) Windows and Linux systems in production
• A willingness to take on, drive, own and maintain a variety of large and small projects