Senior Backend Engineer, Paid

• You are an experienced software developer, who has worked as part of small to medium-sized teams and participated in planning, designing, and shipping small-to-medium scale applications
• You are a team player and contributor to technology decisions and architecture and can balance day-to-day workload, with an eye for future improvements of your team and their work
• Proven history of excelling in a team-based, collaborative environment
• Proven Experience designing and documenting APIs (we use Node.js, Fastify, OpenAPI Spec)
• Senior-level knowledge of back-end development (we use Node.js)
• Senior-level knowledge of database engines (we use PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Proven Experience in building scalable production services and monitoring performance (we use GCP Monitoring Tools)
• Experience reviewing code and giving constructive feedback to peers
• You live and work within 3 Hours of Eastern Standard Time

Desirable

• You will be working as part of a group of developers, product managers, and designers who help each other solve problems across all functions
• You will employ best practices in development, security, accessibility, and design to achieve the highest quality of service for our customers
• Write production-ready code that is performance optimized, easily testable and understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors
• Reporting directly to the Engineering Manager, work together on and own your personal growth and objectives
• Work with Product Managers and Software Developers to collaboratively define the roadmap for features and tools
• Clearly communicate with the team through our productivity tools (Slack, Notion and GitHub)
• Champion documentation and knowledge sharing
• Contribute to the design of scalable software platforms with performance and security in mind
• Analyze and troubleshoot production issues in a timely fashion
• Assist Junior developers with their assigned responsibilities when required
• Contribute to documentation, functional specifications, design documents and architecture diagrams
• In order to foster skill growth and guide team members to improve themselves and others, we document a set of core skills & competencies that each team member need to have or achieve in order to be effective
• Full-Time Or Contract

• Qualified candidates will be invited to 4 virtual interviews across 2 days
• Hiring Manager Interview (45 mins). We want to learn more about your experience and interests at this stage
• You will also learn about the engineering team and decide if #paid is the right fit for you
• Meet the team (60 mins). You will meet Product, Design and Engineering team members to learn how you collaborate across these disciplines
• You will also have an opportunity to ask about our team structure and culture
• Project Deep Dive (60 mins). You will meet the engineering team and talk in-depth about a past project or codebase you loved (or hated!)
• Come prepared to talk about technical topics (architecture, trade-offs and tools) and non-technical details (team structure, project planning, lessons learned and overall business impact)
• You are welcome to present slides or a codebase, but remember that this interview is a conversation, not a presentation
• Executive Interview (30 mins). Intended to cover your skills in collaboration and communication, as well as to provide a final opportunity for you to ask any lingering questions about the company strategy
• Note: this is an outline of interviewing at #paid. The interview process may vary depending on your experience