Senior Backend Engineer, Sagetap

• 4+ years of software engineering or relevant experience
• Proficiency in programming with Kotlin or similar languages (e.g. Java, C#)
• Experience with databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and confidence with core SQL
• Experience with git or other version control systems
• Experience with cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services preferred)
• Application architecture and design patterns, experience in building RESTful APIs
• An empathetic mindset (for our users and the rest of our team), the ability to collaborate and communicate effectively, and a willingness and desire to learn

Desirable

• As a senior member of an engineering- and innovation-first company, you will be empowered to discuss, design, and implement solutions throughout our platform from ideation all the way to production
• You should be interested in utilizing and advocating for good coding practices, writing code that is testable, observable, and maintainable
• Ideally you have thoughts about how systems and code ought to be architected, what tools are best for the job, and how to best collaborate with others to achieve a common goal
• You will have the opportunity to work with many interesting technologies such as Kotlin, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, AWS, and Terraform to build an innovative and evolving product with a team of open and friendly engineers
• You will also be given the opportunity to transform this into a full-stack role if you have experience or interest in the front end
• Write code in Kotlin (and perhaps other languages down the line) to develop our back end systems
• Communicate clearly with our business and product partners to better understand their requirements, and then help plan, scope, and execute upon them
• Be an advocate for best practices around testing, design, observability, etc. to maintain the long-term quality and stability of the platform
• Collaborate with, learn from, and teach others on the team about languages, tooling, techniques, etc
• This is a full-time, permanent position reporting to the Head of Engineering