Staff Back End Engineer

Altruist Corp
Los Angeles, CA, United States
29 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Part-time (≤ 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$181,000.0 - $265,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Data Analysis PostgreSQL Web Applications Spring-boot Kubernetes Information Technology Data Pipelines Microservices

Job description

  • We have multiple teams hiring for high impact & high visibility projects. Our recruitment team will work with you to match you to the right opportunity to help you grow your career at Altruist
  • Act as a leader and steward of engineering best practices, helping to mentor other engineers and develop impactful solutions
  • Analyze and solve complex problems spanning multiple user personas and workflows
  • Focus on building and scaling services and user facing web applications
  • Build customer centric scalable and performant applications and features
  • Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and ELT processes
  • Build new data integrations based on established requirements
  • Perform data analysis to investigate and resolve data issues

Requirements

Skills & expertise Technical aptitude Communication skills Creative thinking Problem-solving skills Java, * Experience - 8+ years of software engineering experience building precise and scalable distributed systems with best engineering practices

  • Superb communication - Intentional dialogue is a superpower. You listen as well as you share your perspective with others
  • Technical aptitude - You’re technologically savvy and can easily get up to speed on modern tech stacks (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes)
  • Assurance - Your confidence is brilliant, yet ego-less. You possess a strong knowledge base, the ability to discover the unknown, and are open to differing perspectives
  • Creative problem solving - Identifying the problem is simply not enough. You’re instinctually creative with your approach in finding solutions to roadblocks
  • Education - Ideally looking for a B.A. / B.S. degree in relevant fields such as Computer Science or similar Engineering/Mathematics degrees
  • Resilience - We’re inspired by your unwavering determination to achieve success, no matter the adversity you face along way
  • Ownership - The pride you put into every aspect of your work is unparalleled and undeniable

Benefits & conditions

  • Grow your career: Altruist is a thoughtful, fast-growing company that values high achievers
  • Our success is your success: Be rewarded for doing great work - competitive compensation and equity for all team members
  • Take care of yourself: Health, dental, and vision coverage, available on your first day
  • Work-life integration: We work hard and respect everyone’s whole selves
  • You’re welcome here: Altruist is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to inclusivity

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