Senior Backend Engineer (Series A Fintech Startup)
Recruiting from Scratch
Job location
Maldonado, Maldonado Department
Job details
Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
This role will be a senior engineering role at one of our clients that are early stage all the way to IPO / Private companies.
About The Role
As a backend engineer with our client, you will work on their backend systems, APIs, servers, and infrastructure. You'll work closely with a stellar team of passionate, experienced engineers and product managers who have been instrumental in building some of the most widely-used technology products globally.
Their backend uses Node, Terraform, Redis, Elasticsearch, Postgres and runs on Kubernetes in Amazon AWS. They believe in using the best tool for the job and don't shy away from solving complex problems!
In this role you will:
• Work with the product and other engineering teams to enhance the client's product; on new features, APIs, backends, infrastructure, performance, and quality
• Work in a remote environment
• Help ensure that customers have an excellent experience using their product
• Participate in the engineering teams' on-call rotations for customer support and live production issues
You may be a great fit for this role if:
• You have 2+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role and have a software engineering degree or equivalent experience
• You love programming and have excellent proficiency with Node, Terraform, Redis, Elasticsearch, AWS, or comparable technologies
• You have experience in system design or performance optimization or have built web-based systems on Cloud infrastructures such as AWS, Azure or similar Cloud-based environments
• You are motivated and excel when challenged
