Senior Backend Developer

Job Overview

Position:
Senior Backend Developer

Form of Employment: contract of employment

Place of Work: 100% remote

Core

Working Hours:

16:00–20:00 CET (core hours, flexibility for remaining hours)

Our client combines a buyer database of over 270M contacts and powerful sales engagement and automation tools in one, easy‑to‑use platform. Trusted by over 160,000 companies, it has more than one million users globally. By helping sales professionals find their ideal buyers and intelligently automate outreach, our client helps go‑to‑market teams sell anything.

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross‑functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You'll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands‑on mentorship, and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You love both learning and teaching.

In this role, you will be interfacing with design, front‑end, analytics, as well as teams outside of Engineering. You enjoy working cross‑functionally to solve hard problems and make an impact. You strive for quality and are obsessed with improving quality, automation, and squashing any bugs that sneak through. You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas.

• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
• Gather product requirements and write design docs to satisfy product needs
• Drive/Lead the full lifecycle of software development: product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance
• Mentor others on best practices and effectively share knowledge
• Effectively communicate development progress to product lead, engineering manager, and other stakeholders
• Introduce new technologies and new ideas as required
• Work effectively as part of a large global team
• Attend and engage in scrum ceremony meetings, team parties, and manager 1:1s
• Provide feedback to co‑workers in written and verbal form and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 1-2 years in senior positions, developing large‑scale applications
• Experience developing distributed web applications
• Code is comprehensible, well‑structured, highly performant
• Experience with database modeling (SQL or No
  
  SQL both OK)
• Experience with using and designing RESTful services
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object‑oriented design

• Proactively acts without being told what to do. Able to identify areas of improvement and drive best practices to deliver high‑quality, performant, and scalable solutions
• Develops services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place
• Able to up‑level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team
• Able to deal with ambiguity
• Ownership of projects from start to finish. Just because the project has been deployed doesn’t mean it’s done
• Organized and able to effectively plan and break large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver
• Let others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints
• A creative and innovative problem solver with previous experience working in an agile, startup environment
• Confident in owning your role and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users