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You will design and maintain backend services focused on performance, reliability, and scalability, collaborate on new features, write efficient code, develop automated tests, troubleshoot issues, contribute to architecture, and mentor engineers.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services
- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders on features
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Develop automated tests
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues
- Perform hands-on coding and architectural design
- Review technical documents and code changes
- Mentor and guide junior engineers
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience with MySQL or relational databases
- Experience with microservices
- Coding skills
- Testing skills
- System design skills
- Cross-functional collaboration experience
- Communication skills
- Project management skills
- Leadership skills
- Mentoring experience
- Ability to work with operations, product, design, and data science
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)