Senior Backend Engineer, Movable Ink

• We don’t have a checklist of technologies that you need to know in order to get hired
• Having experience with the technologies we are using is a nice plus, but not required
• We are looking to hire you because you are a good engineer
• You’ve learned that almost every solution comes with a set of trade-offs and that the most important part of the job is understanding the context within which we need to weigh those trade-offs
• We are looking for people who start approaching every problem by asking “How will I know it is working?”, “How will I know if I succeeded?”
• While we work together extensively, it is expected that you will be comfortable with working independently, communicating your ideas to the team
• An ability to quickly pick up new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies will help you succeed on our team
• “How do I know its working” mindset
• Professional software development experience in a team environment
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, and software engineers
• Experience debugging complex problems. You know how to break down large problems into discrete units that can be set up as hypotheses to test
• Experience going from “I don’t know this poorly documented open-source project” to being able to use, debug, and patch as needed
• Experience working with a version control system such as Git
• HotChocolate GraphQL server experience
• .Net ecosystem experience

Desirable

• The Unified Data Platform team is looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer
• The UDP team is a fairly new one at Movable Ink, having been formed in October 2023
• The codebase we are currently working in is a greenfield one, but it fits into an existing ecosystem that has had many years to mature
• Your early work will primarily be within our greenfield codebase, but interacting with “established systems” will be a regular concern
• UDP is an internal service and your primary customers will be other developers at Movable Ink
• Our development process is very iterative and features daily communication, both asynchronous and synchronously
• Our core technologies are F#, GraphQL, Postgres, and property-based testing
• As developers we aim to integrate early and often
• We are currently using a trunk-based development methodology
• Developers regularly check in with each other to consult when making decisions that involve trade-offs
• We are still at the stage in greenfield development where most decisions will have long term implications
• Work with other Engineers to design and implement secure, scalable, highly available services using our core team technologies - F#, postgres, graphql
• Collaborate with product and engineering partners to create reliable solutions
• Participate in our on-call rotation once we go to production in the next couple of months