Lead Backend Engineer, Cortex
$185-250k
+ Equity
Internal Developer Portal eliminating developer tax
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Internal Developer Portal eliminating developer tax
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$185-250k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
We help companies to catalog, score, and assign action to improve service quality and velocity, so devs can get back to work that drives the business forward.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of experience building backend applications using any modern programming language
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing platforms
- Experience with modern data storage solutions, such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc
- Knowledge of current standard methodologies and to try, learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages
- Solid fundamental skills in data structures, algorithms, and web development best practices
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to join our team and help us build a new category of developer tooling. As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will be solving deeply technical problems and diving into scalability issues. You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the core backend systems that power Cortex while working closely with the product and support engineering teams
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements
- Work alongside other engineers to build new features and enhance existing ones
- Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices
- Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences
- Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes
Our take
Cortex is helping solve the problems engineering teams and SREs have with microservices. Cortex’s software platform offers companies visibility and control over microservices and cloud infrastructure, enabling them to improve the development of applications and services they create.
To see to the growing demand for more services, Cortex recently launched its Cortex Resource Catalog so the platform can cater to more assets. Given this, the company’s rapidly growing customer base (which includes Adobe, Brex, Grammarly, Palo Alto Networks, and SoFi) has found the platform to provide great flexibility, which enables them to develop various creative new use cases.
Funding from Tiger Global and Sequoia Capital will go towards further expanding the platform based on feature request from users. It will invest in improvements in-app to help recruit new teams and developers, as well as expanding its global reach.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
150% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2024
$60m
SERIES C
May 2023
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $112.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, vision
- Weekly virtual team bonding experiences
- Unlimited PTO
- Retirement plans
- Quarterly team retreats
- Cortex Wallet
- Gender neutral parental leave
- Professional & career development
- Competitive pay & equity
- Pet Insurance
- Yearly Learning & Development stipend
Company values
- Bias to Action: We thrive on ambiguous problems and move quickly to solve them
- Write the Rules: We’re building an entirely new market, which means defining our own playbook
- No Ego: We are honest & transparent with each other. Ideas are assessed based on their merit
- Embrace Growth: We run headfirst into uncomfortable situations, to grow and learn from them
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Anish Dhar
(CEO)Previously co-founded Divtera and Homeroom. Spent nearly five years Engineering for Uber.
Ganesh Datta
(CTO)Previously served as Principal Software Engineer for Mission Lane, Tech Lead for LendUp, and as a Web Developer for Food and Remedy.
Nikhil Unni
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