Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

Scentbird is constantly growing and in order to support this growth we constantly need to improve the website and test new functionality. Our backend team have a wide range of tasks:

• Recommendations and personalization.
• Payment functionality (new plans, special offers).
• Website SEO.
• Performance updates.
• Multi region cloud support.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Develop features and improvements to the Scentbird product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance.
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions.
• Represent Scentbird and its values in public communication around specific projects and community contributions.
• Confidently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.

Personality traits

• Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term.
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.
• An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.

Required qualifications

• Significant professional experience with Java or language required by the specialty, 7+ years experience.
• Experience with GraphQL, SpringBoot.
• Experience with PostgresQL 2+ years.
• Experience with cloud providers Amazon AWS or similar.
• Experience with Graphana/NewRelic or similar technologies.
• Experience with SPA is a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems JVM profiling, database profiling).
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• CI/CD experience.
• TDD experience is a plus.

They offer

• Competitive base compensation.
• Bonus program.
• Paid Time Off and Work From Home.
• A fun, creative and energetic work environment.