Backend Developer

Responsibilities:

Betterment: a tireless pursuit to drive results.

Boldness: take risks and act decisively.

Deep Honesty: invite and offer candid feedback in order to learn, change, and grow.

Solidarity: recognize that we are part of something bigger than ourselves and are committed to our mission.

Design and implement scalable systems and infrastructures.

Measure your work thoroughly, analyze results, and generate hypotheses to drive new product changes through A/B testing.

Setup monitoring and testing of your APIs and services to better understand real time health of your products.

Break-down complex problems into solvable pieces of work for other Engineers.

Depending on your specialization, projects/initiatives may include: Security, scaling distributed systems, working on our core services related to user management, building out new verticals, guiding new engagement features, scaling traffic/imports/exports, managing APIs.

Requirements:

4+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role.

Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g. Java, MySql, AWS, Docker).

Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment.

Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis.

SaaS /Internet company background: web-based, hosted on AWS.

Experience in an Agile and Scrum environment.