Senior Backend Developer

Develop and maintain backend web applications that interact with each other, as well as with other existing applications

Assist in the design of these applications based on product requirements and technical constraints

Manage and monitor applications’ production runtimes

Development of maintainable code that is well-structured, clear, easy to review, and easy to refactor as needed

Ability to translate design requirements into working code

Recognition of engineering trade-offs when making decisions

Familiarity with Git

Collaboration using GitHub (opening reviewable PRs, code review, etc.)

Familiarity with debugging processes and best practices for solving code issues

Familiarity with addressing technical debt and refactoring

Strong organizational skills

Object-Oriented Programming (Ruby on Rails preferred, but any language or stack with similar development processes is acceptable, e.g. PHP, Python, etc.)

Relational database systems (Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and how to properly scale queries

Caching systems (Redis, Memcache, etc.)

Understanding of common API architectures (REST preferred, GraphQL acceptable)

Developing APIs (including versioning, error handling, etc.)

Securing APIs

Proper handling of user data (PII best practices, secure storage, etc.)

Automated testing (unit tests, integration tests, etc.)

Backend package management (bundler, composer, pip, etc.)

Observability and error reporting

Standing up an application in production (using a host such as Heroku or similar)

Standing up an application on development machines (Docker preferred to manage inter-service dependencies, but other similar systems are acceptable)

Deploying to production either manually or via CI/CD pipelines

Configuring and monitoring resource usage and performance

Debugging production bugs

Management of application secrets

Familiarity with the Linux command line

Develop and maintain backend web applications that interact with each other, as well as with other existing applications

Assist in the design of these applications based on product requirements and technical constraints

Manage and monitor applications’ production runtimes

Development of maintainable code that is well-structured, clear, easy to review, and easy to refactor as needed

Ability to translate design requirements into working code

Recognition of engineering trade-offs when making decisions

Familiarity with Git

Collaboration using GitHub (opening reviewable PRs, code review, etc.)

Familiarity with debugging processes and best practices for solving code issues

Familiarity with addressing technical debt and refactoring

Strong organizational skills

Object-Oriented Programming (Ruby on Rails preferred, but any language or stack with similar development processes is acceptable, e.g. PHP, Python, etc.)

Relational database systems (Postgres, MySQL, etc.) and how to properly scale queries

Caching systems (Redis, Memcache, etc.)

Understanding of common API architectures (REST preferred, GraphQL acceptable)

Developing APIs (including versioning, error handling, etc.)

Securing APIs

Proper handling of user data (PII best practices, secure storage, etc.)

Automated testing (unit tests, integration tests, etc.)

Backend package management (bundler, composer, pip, etc.)

Observability and error reporting

Standing up an application in production (using a host such as Heroku or similar)

Standing up an application on development machines (Docker preferred to manage inter-service dependencies, but other similar systems are acceptable)

Deploying to production either manually or via CI/CD pipelines

Configuring and monitoring resource usage and performance

Debugging production bugs

Management of application secrets

Familiarity with the Linux command line