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Senior Backend Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
112 days ago
Salary
$145K - $170K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer
Grid
• Build robust, fault-tolerant integrations with 3rd party APIs that have little to no or poor documentation. • Create sophisticated background processing pipelines that are also fault-tolerant. • Develop mature APIs and microservices that adhere to RESTful principles that are used by paying clients in production. • Write strong unit and integration tests that ensure the code quality of your work. • Investigate client issues and service disruptions that require a deep dive. • Translate high-level requirements into a system design update and new data model while collaborating with clients and team members through requirements gathering and discovery. • Evaluate the pros and cons of high level architectural choices as well as lower level design decisions required within an existing application. • Work autonomously and make system design decisions that are resistant to change leveraging your experience. • Deeply invested in your work and client happiness. • Mentor junior to mid level engineers while also holding them accountable.
Job Requirements
- 7+ years of full-time experience as a Software Engineer
- BS in Computer Science or commensurate experience
- Proficient in TypeScript and JavaScript programming languages
- Strong experience with relational databases including schema and query design, implementation, optimization, and ORM usage
- Deep understanding of Node.js semantics (event loops, streams, events, etc)
- Proven track record for integrating with external APIs
- Full confidence in building a fault-tolerant and high-performant microservice
- Experience with background job processing, queues, etc
- History of scaling and optimizing performance of applications to support rapid growth
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- $1,500.00 professional development budget
- Fitness/Wellness reimbursement
- Internet reimbursement
- Home Office $1,000.00 stipend
- Unlimited PTO with manager approval
- Mental health days off
- Annual company offsite
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