Senior Backend Software Engineer
Regard
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $165,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Collaborate with product and design team members to best design medium to large projects balancing speed to market, user experience, business goals, and technical architecture quality
- Own medium to large backend services and drive improvements across system design, observability, testing, performance, and support.
- Drive backend development practices, patterns, and processes along with the other Regard backend experts
- Mentor and review code from less experienced developers in our backend services across backend job processing, API, and other services
- Maintain and improve the quality of the codebase and tooling in your area of responsibility by proactive fixes and improvements and through identifying and proposing projects to improve the overall backend codebase
- Participate in operational activities supporting product areas you own including on-call, monitoring, and production support
- Contribute as necessary across the stack (front end, infrastructure, AWS, etc) in order to unblock projects
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science
- 6+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
- Proficient in Python with demonstrated ability to write and maintain production-quality code
- Able to participate in on-call operational support for their areas of responsibility
- Able to travel up to 4 weeks a year for company co-working and/or retreat weeks
Benefits
- Eligible for equity
- 99% employer paid health benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision) + One Medical subscription
- 18 PTO days/yr + 1 week holiday break
- Monthly health & wellness budget
- Company-sponsored team retreat + social events
- A sabbatical program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Pythonbackend developmentsystem designobservabilitytestingperformanceAPIcode qualityproduction supportsoftware development
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringcode reviewproblem-solvingcommunication
Certifications
BS in Computer Science