Contract: Senior Staff Back-end Engineer

Collaborate with Engineering, Data Science teams, and Product Managers to create outstanding products for our users.

Partner with product management and engineering colleagues to plan, execute, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality projects.

Understand the larger vision, features, and challenges and translate them into actionable plans, considering trade-offs to achieve goals.

Work within and across teams to design, build, and deliver robust systems that deliver value for our business and customers.

Handle complex, ambiguous projects with minimal guidance.

Simplify complex projects, potentially leading to strategic pivots from the original product plan.

Participate in code reviews and design reviews, mentor junior engineers, promote best practices, and write supporting documentation.

Share ownership of our code domain, focusing on improving code quality and reducing technical debt.

Monitor system performance, respond to incidents promptly, and participate in on-call rotations as needed.

Utilize collaborative tools such as Gmail, Slack, Confluence, and Jira for communication, documentation, and project management.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable and robust server-side logic, databases, and APIs.

Utilize programming languages such as Java or Kotlin for backend development.

Architect and optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.

Implement security measures to protect backend systems and data.