Backend Engineer

What You’ll Achieve

• Develop, release and run large-scale web applications
• Develop and define the backend architecture and tech stack for a product area
• Improve performance, reliability, scalability and security for our backend systems
• Be involved in transitioning our monolithic codebase to a microservice-based architecture
• Completely disrupt logistics by tackling bleeding-edge, technical problems

About You

• High-energy and confident - you’ll do whatever it takes to win
• You’re an owner - driven, focused, and quick to take ownership of your work
• Humble - you’re willing to get into the details and you’re open to feedback
• Adaptable, resilient, and able to thrive in ambiguity - things change quickly in our fast-paced startup and you’ll need to be able to keep up!
• Growth-minded - you’re eager to expand your skill set and excited to carve out your career path in a hyper-growth setting
• Desire for impact - ready to take on a lot of responsibility and work collaboratively with your team

Qualifications

• B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent
• 5+ years of industry experience
• Prior experience working with backend tech stacks
• Able to analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Experience with service orientated architecture, writing REST API’s, unit testing, and architectural design
• Expertise in web technologies such as Rails/Django and JavaScript frameworks
• Understanding of modern web stacks and architecture (HTTP, REST)
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and other technologies (e.g. Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ)