Senior Software Engineer
Core
Design, build, and maintain complex backend systems and scalable platform services.
Role type
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Builds
Scalable platform services and systems
Domain
Web applications
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Backend architectural patterns, API design, performance optimization, unit and integration testing, code reviews, security principles
Preferred skills
Mentoring junior engineers, architecting internal standards and frameworks
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Design and build complex backend systems, design and maintain APIs, find and solve performance issues, participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
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## About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll work across the stack and be responsible for building scalable platform services and systems. You'll work closely with other engineers to build and ship key features. We are detail oriented and value clean, modular, and high-performing code. You'll help architect and build our internal standards and frameworks.
## Duties and Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain complex backend systems
- Collaborate with other engineers, PMs and non-technical stakeholders to develop and ship features
- Design, build, and maintain our API's
- Find and solve performance issues
- Participate in code reviews
- Communicate best practices to the team
- Mentor junior engineers
## Qualifications and Skills
- 7+ years of experience
- Experience building complex architecture systems from the ground up, experience with backend architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
- Ability to design clean APIs and understanding of performance issues
- Experienced with software engineering best practices – design patterns, code reviews, unit and integration testing, etc.
- Ability to communicate technical specifications both verbal and written
- Understanding of security, common attacks and defenses
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