Senior Backend Engineer, Skipify
Frictionless commerce and 1-touch purchasing
Job no longer available
Frictionless commerce and 1-touch purchasing
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To eliminate friction in the shopper's journey and help make any customer engagement Shoppable.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (relevant work experience may be considered)
- 8+ years of relevant professional work experience in DevOps and infrastructure
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
- Strong experience in backend development with a focus on cloud-based fintech solutions
- Expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and technologies
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) for managing cloud resources
- Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Node.js, Golang
- Knowledge of microservices architecture and best practices
- Experience with database systems (SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Experience working in a startup or fast-paced environment is a plus
- A history of leading projects and mentoring junior team members in the financial services context
- You exemplify Skipify values - you’re autonomous, action-oriented, accountable for what you do and you use these values to drive decisions
- You take pride in what you do and who you do it with
- You’ve got a spark that drives you - a competitive spirit and a collaborative nature that brings others along with you to win together
- You bring your A-game - striving to do your best work; the kind that raises the bar for others around you
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the deriving, building out of and supporting Skipify’s core product offering
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing and maintaining our cloud-based fintech platform, ensuring it is robust, scalable, and secure
- You will provide mentorship to engineers and contribute to the strategic development of our product offering
- Help lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend services and microservices that power our fintech applications
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including frontend developers, DevOps engineers, and product managers, to deliver high-quality software solutions
- Build and manage cloud-based infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to support our applications
- Implement best practices for scalability, performance, and security
- Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, adhering to coding standards and best practices
- Conduct code reviews to ensure code quality and knowledge sharing
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in a timely manner
- Act as a mentor and provide expert guidance to more junior engineering team members
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and technologies in fintech and backend development
Our take
Skipify was founded in 2018 to help brands of all sizes boost sales across numerous marketing channels. The idea is to offer a way of incorporating instant, one-click purchasing into emails, blog posts, and even text messages - a feature generally available only to the better-resourced e-commerce giants like Amazon and Instagram.
The means to provide frictionless e-commerce should prove attractive to vendors looking to encourage sales. Over two thirds of carts are reportedly abandoned by online shoppers. With the past years seeing online shopping activity increase almost five-fold, the ability to smoothly net more of these potential customers is becoming an increasing sticking point for many online vendors. Skipify’s multi-channel solution is not only promising, it also seems relatively efficient: its email app requires no additional coding on the part of vendors.
In spite its relatively youth as a company, Skipify's services are already used by the likes of Google, Twilio, and Klaviyo ans it has gone on to partner with Amex. This gives the company an edge in the increasingly competitive e-commerce space, and with some strong funding and backing from industry giants like PayPal, the company is well-positioned to further develop its offerings.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
100% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2021
$11.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $11.1m
Company HQ
West Oakland, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Rhyth Martin
(CEO)A Berkeley alum who was VP of Marketing at Responsys. Also founded Lantern and GLP.
Jeremy Anderson
(President)Studied at Berkeley, Columbia and Stanford. Went on to be Google's Head of Industry and Financial Services.
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