Senior Backend Engineer

About the Role

• One of the most important ports of their business is their operations. Ability to respond to customer requests quickly, send orders without any problems, and have visibility into inventory play critical roles in company success. That’s why their back office team developed several systems that allow us to be flexible and effective. But the more they grow, the more they have operations related tasks, and they need to keep up with a growing complexity of their business.

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 stakeholders from Ops and CS 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 their 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 their 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.
• Work on home-grown warehouse execution system that allows their Ops team to ship ten of thousands of orders daily.
• Improve CRM system that is used by their CS team 24/7.

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 their 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 Angular and SPA 2+ years.
• Experience with Electron 2+ years.
• Experience with cloud providers Amazon AWS or similar.
• Experience with Graphana/NewRelic or similar technologies.
• 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).
• Experience working as an on-call person is a plus.
• 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.