We are seeking a Senior Backend Developer to help shape the future of our business as we continue to scale towards being a global leader. You will be responsible for a key part of our mission, and provide the strongest possible base for accelerating and scaling our product in the near future. 

Requirements:

• Expert in serverless technologies, particularly within AWS and GCP


• Expert in TypeScript; experience with Python, JVM, and DSLs is a plus


• Expert in relational and NoSQL databases, particularly with GCP (Firestore, RTDB, BigQuery)


• Knowledge of technical best practices, including testing


• Database processing - creating and maintaining custom scripts and migrations


• Proficiency in search engines (ElasticSearch)


• Expert in creating and managing RESTful APIs


• Authentication methodologies and general security principles


• Experience in profiling, debugging and cloud services monitoring is a plus


• Experience in DevOps toolchains is a plus

• Being a technical leader within your team and within our general


• Building and maintaining a secure, sustainable and scalable backend architecture


• Working towards carrying out effective systems monitoring and logging, using the results to help shape our product decisions


• Creating, maintaining and monitoring scalable dynamic infrastructure, serverless microservices, database migrations and optimisations


• Having full understanding and alignment with our company goals so that they serve as the basis of the work you drive forward


• Being the advocate for all things backend, to ensure we have the best foundation to conquer the industry and consistently scale up


• Promoting a healthy and collaborative culture across teams to collectively deliver exceptional output

• You are an active communicator; able to effectively collaborate with both the technical and business sides of the company


• You are committed to sharing your expertise through documentation, mentorship and discussion (both written and verbal)


• You have technical leadership and/or team leadership experience


• You are a strategic and creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills


• You have a track record of helping to build successful products and have experience working directly with product managers and business stakeholders


• You are comfortable giving and receiving constructive feedback


• You are ultimately responsible for backend decisions, but are always able to talk through and defend those ideas


• You are committed to writing high-quality code and proactively fixing issues