Back-End Engineer

An emerging company helping freelancers find financial security by leveraging the power of advanced technology is looking for a Back-End Engineer. The engineer will be responsible for building highly scalable, customer-centric, and performant web applications. The company helps freelancers to chart out their retirement plans and build a more financially secure future. This will be a long-term, full-time role requiring 5+ hours overlap with the PST time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Create RESTful APIs, various back-end microservices, and maintain them
• Actively participate in the platform development process, create and maintain existing data ingestion pipelines 
• Work with multiple software systems, including software for version control, continuous integration, continuous deployment, performance data collection, and more
• Automate the compilation, continuous integration, testing, packaging, and distribution of multiple software components
• Carry out investigations and execute root-cause analysis
• Analyze business requirements, including the design, programming, testing, and documentation to support and enhance software
• Effectively communicate with immediate team members and partners 
• Confirm delivery timelines, goals, and priorities
• Maintain deep technical and business knowledge of industry directions and trends 
• Create and maintain required documentation
• Responsible for production support, continuous improvement projects, minor enhancement, etc.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 5+ years of relevant experience as a back-end developer
• Prolific experience working with Python, AWS, CI/CD, Jenkins, Docker, Restful APIs, and SQL databases
• Nice to have some experience with Microservices, Big data, and DevOps
• Knowledge of other languages like Rust, JavaScript, Go, PHP, Java, and Ruby would be desirable
• Demonstrated success deploying and scaling high traffic services in AWS (AMI’s, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, ECS, VPC, Network Routing/ACL’s, ELB)
• Networking knowledge and ability to maintain various server web server software (NGINX, Apache, etc.)
• Experience implementing and managing AWS Fargate and AWS ECS clusters
• Very good experience with Python3 and frameworks (Django)
• Extremely comfortable with Linux, shell-scripting, and Git
• Experience with Kubernetes and Google Cloud would be a plus
• Nice to have some experience with other languages like Rust, JavaScript, Go, PHP, Java, and Ruby
• Experience with DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD (Jenkins) would be nice to have
• Experience with Big Data DBS and associated tools is desirable
• In-depth knowledge of cross-browser compatibility, website performance, and accessibility
• Ability to create reusable, scalable components
• Excellent troubleshooting, interpersonal, and verbal communication skills