Senior Backend Engineer
Proton.ai
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $60,000 - $90,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
CloudGoJavaPython
About the role
- Spearhead the backend coding of new features while helping the Product team understand complexity and tradeoffs. Developing across the entire full stack of our product, driving features from idea to production and rapidly delivering value to our customers that makes a real impact.
- Be part of a cross-functional team, including software engineering, infrastructure, backend, frontend, and devops, to provide architectural guidance, making sure the stack decisions being made support our future growth.
- Leverage your experience with enterprise applications to tailor our solutions to the unique needs of our corporate customers.
- Share your expertise in building high-performance, reliable applications, contributing to end-to-end architecture and data flow discussions.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a principal engineer or similar in startup environments, with a focus on building scalable SaaS solutions. 5+ years of experience building and deploying scalable SaaS applications
- 5+ years of experience with backend technologies preferably Python or Go, but C# or Java are acceptable
- Track record of successful product architecture decisions and system improvements with a large focus on secure coding practices and standards to meet the needs of enterprise class customers and their data.
- Deep understanding of cloud-native technologies and concepts such as cloud providers, databases, application performance, scalability and security
- Curiosity for new technologies. You’re someone who actively seeks to stay informed about the latest frameworks, software advancements, and tools utilized by industry peers. You like contrasting and comparing technologies to find why one fits better for certain use-cases than the other.
- Experience with enterprise applications is highly preferred.
- Exceptional communication skills for conveying complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive Salaries + Company Stock Options - we want to pay you well (and equitably!) and make you feel like an owner.
- Flexible Schedule - we think high levels of autonomy, responsibility, and working asynchronously foster an amazing workplace.
- Annual Company Paid Off-sites - time for us to be together, brainstorm, and make magic happen.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
backend developmentPythonGoC#JavaSaaS solutionssecure coding practicescloud-native technologiesapplication performancescalability
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborationarchitectural guidancecuriosity for new technologies