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Senior Backend Engineer (Node.JS, Express.JS, Nest.JS, TypeScript, Python) - California, USA (remote)

A growing fintech startup is looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer in California. You will collaborate closely with the co-founders to refine and enhance the product amidst a bustling and dynamic environment.

The ideal candidate will be a proactive individual who can quickly contribute to addressing customers' feature requests and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the platform.

This is a great opportunity to work with financial platforms and gain invaluable experience as a key member of a small, five-person team in a startup constantly evolving and tackling new challenges.

Opportunity to

• Have the ability to set the direction of the features you implement
• Collaborate with co-founders to develop and refine our platform's features
• Write clean and maintainable code with an emphasis on non-breaking changes
• Manage and optimize databases and servers to ensure high performance and availability

Experience

• Knowledge of principles of cloud-based services e.g compute, storage etc
• Robust & scalable API development (RestAPIs etc)
• Being able to appreciate cloud-based cost as our product scales
• Experience working on projects with scalability and performance e.g CI/CD pipelines, containerization, microservices, and automated testing
• Experience writing optimised and efficient SQL queries for relational databases (e.g PostgreSQL/MySQL)
• Have a solid understanding of modern backend engineering
• Experience with specific AWS services such as Lambda, RDS, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch
• Experience writing server-side backend logic (Node.js)
• An expert working with Node.JS, Nest.JS, Express.JS, TypeScript, Python
• Experience building UIs with a modern frontend framework (e.g React)

General good software principles

• Code reviews
• Writing technical documentation
• Git versioning
• Unit and regression testing

Leadership skills

• Able to have a product mindset and set the technical vision with co-founders
• Able to simplify very technical concepts (pros and cons of said concepts) to non-technical stakeholders
• Able to evaluate and justify the use of specific technologies based on their advantages and disadvantages

Bonus

• Knowledge of financial markets is advantageous but not required

This could be a great opportunity as a Senior Backend Engineer to come on board and bring previous level experience to an exciting company!

Please apply below or please send your CV to [email protected].

KEY WORDS: SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER, NODE.JS, NEST.JS, EXPRESS.JS, PYTHON, AWS, REACT.JS

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