Back-End Engineer

A fast-growing company cultivating a community of developers dedicated to creating high-quality software that benefits the health-conscious is looking for a Back-End Engineer. The engineer will contribute to managing the infrastructure and improving data pipelines. The company is building well-considered and well-architected products that enable users to engage in their health and partake in secure insurance choices. They have managed to raise close to $150mn during their Series D round of funding.

Job Responsibilities:

• Use current frameworks and security standards, create unique B2C, B2B, and internal BPO software solutions
• Create new solutions and re-architect existing ones to make them more scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure
• Define and develop features to improve business efficiency in collaboration with key stakeholders and technical leadership
• Understanding complicated systems and improving them with the newest technologies and patterns
• Lead the development of essential subsystems and ensure that they are constantly improved
• Complete the whole SDLC, which includes requirements analysis, architectural and design specifications, service development, code review, testing, and delivery

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 4+ years of relevant experience as a back-end engineer
• Extensive experience with Typescript/Node, Ruby, Java, Python, or other server-side object-oriented languages
• Experience with web frameworks like Express, Rails, Spring, and Django
• Knowledge of API standards like GraphQL, REST, and OAuth
• Extensive data storage experience like SQL, NoSQL, Redis, OLTP, and Data Lake
• Prior deployment experience with Serverless, Containerization, and CICD
• Experience and in-depth knowledge of scalability, latency, stability, and performance 
• An innate ability to understand the trade-offs between acceptable offerings and costs