Build and maintain backend services and microservices for a high-scale SaaS web application using AWS serverless technologies. Integrate backend with front-end components, improve infrastructure, implement monitoring/alerts, and collaborate on product and technical solutions within a fast-paced remote team.
Software Engineer - Backend Engineer
Our Engineering team stays close to our customers, building the tools to deliver on our promise to make running their business easier. We make decisions fast, and priorities change as we adapt to the needs of our industry so we welcome folks that relish the challenges of pace. We believe in quick iteration and in-the-moment feedback, so we can work collectively to build the best team and product.
We are actively hiring for multiple roles within our Engineering teams with projects ranging from large-scale feature development to backend systems engineering and customer-focused problem-solving.
In this role, you will
- Work on a wide range of problems with our core web application and build new microservices
- Focus on solving problems from the customer-facing and backend perspectives
- Gain a deep understanding of our product and become involved in driving out product implementation
- Join a rapidly growing technical team with the opportunity to take on both product and technical problems
If you’re right for this role, you
- Have a strong understanding of the AWS serverless stack (S3, SNS, SQS, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, etc.)
- Have experience with maintaining AWS infrastructure (one or more of Terraform, Pulumi, CDK, SAM, Serverless Framework, etc.)
- Have experience working with deployment pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
- Have experience implementing alerts based on logging and metrics (Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch, etc.)
- Are experienced working on a high scale, rapidly growing web application (SaaS preferred)
- Are comfortable in a fast-paced, pragmatic work environment
- Are comfortable integrating backend services with front-end components and legacy code
- Have experience working on a remote team
Tech knowledge
- AWS Infrastructure
- Web security
- Testing
- Core stack: AWS/TypeScript
Top Skills
Api Gateway
AWS
Cdk
Cloudwatch
Datadog
DynamoDB
Github Actions
Jenkins
Lambda
Pulumi
S3
Sam
Sentry
Serverless Framework
Sns
Sqs
Step Functions
Terraform
Typescript
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