Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

Team: Engineering

Location: Remote

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

What Youll Do:

• Develop engaging experiences for our millions of users across our mobile and web applications.

• Design and implement scalable apps and services, integrating these into an evolving unified product and system architecture.

• Brainstorm and evaluate new product features in collaboration with the product and UX team.

• Collaborate and pair with other developers to develop solutions and teach technical skills.

• Contribute to our development standards within the team and across engineering to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and identify opportunities for improvement

• Champion and implement automated testing practices to uphold the dependability and stability of backend systems, while also taking ownership of the overall reliability of the teams services.

• Actively engage in on-call responsibilities and contribute to incident management efforts.

• Evaluate and test new technologies to help TeamSnap move faster or serve our users more effectively.

• Help teammates overcome obstacles, resolve blockers, and complete work tasks.

 

What Will Set You Up for Success:

5+ years of relevant experience, leading large projects on high-scale, distributed software systems as a software engineer

Proficient in backend development with Node, Python, Golang, Ruby or similar.

Experience with direct usage of SQL and relational databases such as MySQL / GCP Cloud SQL along with migrations, profiling, and optimization of such databases.

Hands-on experience developing APIs, services for mobile applications and web clients at scale.

Successfully delivered complex projects including debugging problems that may span a number of systems.

Experience working with and architecting APIs, event streams, webhooks, etc.

Experience working within and towards a distributed system.

Extra points if you’ve built services for livestreaming, advertising, or subscriptions.