Scentbird

Senior Backend Engineer

Scentbird

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGrafanaGraphQLJavaKubernetesPostgresSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

  • Develop features and improvements to the Scentbird product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
  • Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
  • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
  • Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
  • Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment
  • Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
  • Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
  • Represent Scentbird and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions
  • Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members
  • Collaborate with the team on larger projects

Requirements

  • Significant professional experience with Java or language required by the specialty, 7+ years experience
  • Experience with GraphQL, SpringBoot
  • Experience with PostgresQL 2+ years
  • Experience with cloud providers Amazon AWS or similar
  • Experience with Grafana/NewRelic or similar technologies
  • Experience with SPA is a plus
  • Experience with Kubernetes is a plus
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems (JVM profiling, database profiling)
  • Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
  • CI/CD experience
  • TDD experience is a plus
  • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
Benefits
  • Competitive base compensation
  • Bonus program
  • Paid Time Off and Work From Home
  • A fun, creative and energetic work environment
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Hard Skills & Tools
JavaGraphQLSpringBootPostgresQLAWSGrafanaNewRelicKubernetesJVM profilingdatabase profiling
Soft Skills
collaborationadvocacyproblem-solvingcommunicationagilityiterationcode reviewefficiency recognitionindependenceteamwork