Software Backend Engineer

As a Backend Software Engineer, you are expected to:

• Be responsible for designing, building, improving, or maintaining our backend applications, third-party data integration, data API, backend systems, or working with monitoring tools and infrastructure
• Contribute code to projects that require backend work 
• Improve existing code bases to be more scalable and reliable 
• Monitor and react on alerts to resolve issues 
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered
• Propose solutions to code or problems in a high-traffic environment 
• Perform analysis exercises and contribute to postmortems for incidents
• Work in cross-functional teams and meet great people regularly from top tier technology, consulting, product, or academic background
• Participate and contribute to engineering hygiene such as code review, unit testing, integration testing, and architectural design review
• Write clean and efficient code, adhering to best practices, and ensuring that your solutions are reusable and maintainable 
• Be encouraged to speak your mind, propose ideas, influence others, and continuously grow yourself