Senior Backend Engineer
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Job description
- Bring your engineering experience to collaborate with a close-knit engineering team building social good platforms.
- Responsible for the writing and testing of code and infrastructure that produces the application.
- Work closely with members of your team to ensure design and implementation meet product needs.
- Help architect, design, and implement reusable, well-tested software components.
- Proactively review the code of others, providing feedback on design and implementation choices.
- Collaborate with other engineers and subject matter experts early and often throughout development to ensure sound architecture design decisions, provide a delightful customer experience, and raise money for charities that impact the world.
- Follow code standards and best practices for their given platform.
- Work with Product Owners and UX Designers to ensure complete and proper implementation.
- Ensure the performance, security, integrity and resilience of the application., * 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2%
- A personal learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships
- Personal equipment budget to work from home
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Life assurance of 4x your salary
Our hiring process
Our hiring process may vary between roles, particularly for technical roles where we may incorporate a technical skills/based interview, but as standard you'll have:
- Screening call with one of our in-house Talent Leads
- First stage interview with the Hiring Manager
- On-site second stage interview with key stakeholders - this could be other managers, peers or Senior team members.
Requirements
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are experienced and excited about building innovative next-generation social good platforms which empower nonprofits to do their world-changing work. You are someone who cares about code quality and craft but also has an intrinsic motivation to deliver value to the customer and knows how to balance both. Ideally, you are an engineer who can demonstrate knowledge of various technologies and how those should be applied in multiple scenarios when designing features or systems.
The job requires good communication and organizational skills. You should be able to translate ideas and requirements into deliverable work units. You can collaborate with technical and non-technical audiences and always strive to improve yourself and those around you. You believe everyone has something to contribute, value diversity and inclusion, and enjoy mentoring others to help them grow.
In this role, you "own" the technical quality, execution, and delivery of user stories., * Experience with our tech stack: Typescript, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway.
- Experience building and designing event driven applications
- Experience delivering major features and systems from concept to launch.
- Experience with unit and integration testing.
- Comfortable operating in environments subject to regulatory, compliance, and risk-based security requirements.
- Effective communicator in teams of technical and non-technical individuals (product, marketing, subject matter experts, etc.).
- Engage engineers to support a culture of collaboration and inclusion through mentorship, respectful code review, and dedication to quality.
- You are excited to share and learn from your teammates about crafting fantastic experiences.
- You are passionate about voicing your opinions and can be humble in receiving feedback.
- You have a track record of trying and learning new things and are unafraid to learn through failure.
