Senior Backend Software Engineer, Proof Technology

• 5+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language
• Extensive experience with at least one backend programming language. (e.g. Go, Ruby, Java)
• Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new languages and technologies
• Experience with or desire to work with service-oriented architecture
• Proven understanding of REST APIs and the network stack
• Experience with GraphQL
• Proficiency in using version control systems such as Git
• Strong relational database knowledge; design, query optimization, transactional execution, etc
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance space and time
• Experience in taking ownership of features, while working with a team on short and long-running projects
• Extensive experience writing automated software tests (e.g. unit tests, integration tests)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
• Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker
• You're a proactive communicator; you communicate concerns and blockers early and often
• ​​You’re able to drive major projects across multiple products or systems from design to implementation
• You can identify and troubleshoot ambiguous, open-ended problems effectively

Desirable

• Play an integral role in the development of the Proof platform, working with a small but powerful team of engineers
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure scalability, performance and alignment with standards and best practices in an agile programming environment
• Write code primarily in Go
• Help the team define and maintain development best practices
• Drive the creation of new features and service offerings, as well as the enhancement of existing services