Senior Backend Engineer, Trust & Will

• 5+ years of experience working on highly technical teams, building modern distributed backend services at scale ( NodeJS, ExpressJS, Typescript )
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain systems with regard to automated testing, reliability, performance optimization, security, and observability
• Practical experience utilizing and designing multiple database solutions and knowledge about common use cases, tradeoffs, and optimization techniques ( MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, etc. )
• Understanding of service communication ( networking protocols, HTTP/S, client-server relationship, messaging queues ( AWS SQS ), task runners, serverless compute, etc. )
• 3+ years experience with cloud computing ( AWS, GCP, or Azure )
• Experience building and maintaining highly available critical systems in production environments
• Work collaboratively and cross-functionally to drive the development of tools that provide user, product, and business impact with an emphasis on agile methodologies
• An appreciation for DRY, SOLID, and 12factor principles, SOA/DDD and an understanding of why each matters
• Solve problems autonomously. Should be able to identify, research, scope, build, and ship high-quality code independently

Desirable

• The team is responsible for designing, building, operating, and maintaining the common services that connect and enable our products
• The team works directly with other engineers throughout the organization to understand common patterns and bottlenecks that can be optimized
• Research, scope, and manage technical projects, laying a foundation for continuous product development and growth
• Design, build, expand, and maintain APIs, services, and databases that are consumed by other teams of developers
• Work with developers to build scalable and extensible solutions for our current and future products
• Act as a technical decision maker for our critical backend services to align our technical solutions with modern engineering best practices & organizational strategy
• Collaborate with other developers across the organization to determine when existing services should be utilized or extended, identifying tradeoffs in approaches
• Work with the team to develop both short and long-term roadmaps that align tightly with user, product, and business outcomes
• Produce highly testable, composable, and performant code that is as simple as possible
• Coach, mentor and support other team members at all experience levels