[Remote] Staff Backend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Future is building a personalized guidance system for lifelong health. The Staff Backend Engineer will be responsible for developing core services, data pipelines, and customer-facing features while collaborating with engineering teams and product managers to deliver essential infrastructure and APIs.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and test APIs for new products, features, and services
- Maintain and optimize existing systems, with emphasis on database-related performance
- Collaborate with other engineers across the stack as well as cross-functional stakeholders
- Keep up to date with the latest technologies and industry best practices, and encouraging fellow engineers to do so
- Serve as on-call engineer approximately one week per month, responsible for triaging incoming issues during non-working hour
Skills
- Great Product thinking. You think about the end user experience when you are building to consider whether the features you are building are not only meeting requirements but delighting users
- 8+ years of production development experience, specifically working on backend / API
- Scrappiness and pragmatism. We are a small and fast-moving startup and value someone who can continually weigh tradeoffs to balance engineering excellence with velocity
- Strong knowledge of Go, AWS, Docker (ECS), Postgres (RDS)
- Proven ability to employ software quality measures during development, such as unit/integration testing, monitoring, alerting
- Experience managing Docker-based microservice architecture
- Experience working in a fast-moving startup environment. You are adaptable to shifting priorities, and have a proven track record of cutting through asks to build what matters
- Experience working with ETL, with keen intuition for optimized database performance
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and disability insurance + tax savings accounts
- 401(k) plan
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Enjoy our platform for free!
- Health and fitness monthly stipend contributes to our employees’ overall wellbeing
- Access to a mental health platform
- Reimbursement for medical travel
- Annual learning & development stipend.
- Employment eligible to employees located anywhere in the continental US. No travel required.
- Monthly wellness stipend for fitness, recovery, and overall wellbeing
- Access to mental health resources and therapy support.
- Flexible PTO so you can rest, recharge, and take care of life outside of work.
- Annual budget for courses, conferences, coaching, and tools that help you grow in your craft.
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