Senior Engineer, Backend Platform
Redwood City, CAAll locationsRedwood City, CARedwood Shores, CA Hybrid
$190,000–$260,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
You will be the owner of one or more backend platform verticals. You will get to build customer-facing product features and build/expand platform capabilities as you see fit for your needs to deliver business value. You will build microservices with the latest technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, Postgres, gRPC, etc. You will get to actively contribute towards establishing good engineering practices - write high-quality, maintainable, testable, and scalable code, and perform code reviews. You will develop applications to improve visibility and traceability across the system using tools like Datadog, Rollbar, Segment, etc.
What you'll bring
- We are looking to add Senior Engineers to our backend engineering team.
- You will have opportunities for hands-on contribution in building Zūm’s technology platform.
- If you are a self-driven developer who enjoys solving complex problems and building impactful solutions, you will love this job.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent degrees
- 5+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer
- Experience in building enterprise software platforms
- Hands-on architecture design and coding skills
- Experience working with relational and non-relational databases
- Excellence in one or more programming languages - Node.js, Java, Python
- Hands-on experience with deploying and managing apps on the cloud - AWS/Google
- Strong technical experience and eagerness to establish good engineering practices
- Good planning, organization, and decision-making skills