Senior Backend Engineer
About The Position
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Quo, you will spend a majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components. Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or a project. You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews, and design and delivering on small/medium size projects end-to-end. POTENTIAL AREAS OF FOCUS INCLUDE: Leveraging AI and advanced technologies to help customers manage and derive insights from their data, optimizing the customer onboarding experience. Empowering users to independently set up, manage, and scale their accounts with a seamless and compliant process. Enhancing core messaging and calling features, improving customer data management, and optimizing the visibility of conversations and contacts. In any of these areas, you’ll have the opportunity to tackle impactful challenges and help build scalable backend systems that will support a growing user base. TECHNICAL STACK AND TOOLS: Our backend is built on Node using Typescript. We use Kubernetes on AWS to orchestrate our infrastructure setup and deployment. The overall architecture is event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ at the center of it. We use a variety of databases for different purposes: Postgres, Mongo, Elastic, and Redis. Observability Tools: Datadog Other Tools: Figma, Linear, Notion, and Slack
Requirements
- Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node.
- Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing.
- Takes ownership of work and understands the importance of communication.
- Holds self to a high standard and helps empower others to do the same.
- Intentional about how work impacts customers, the community, and each other.
- Practices empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness when evaluating tradeoffs.
- Curious and seeks to understand the 'why' behind things.
- Supports teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge.
- Lifelong learner.
- Writes code that is readable, testable, and maintainable.
- Leaves the codebase better than found.
Responsibilities
- Coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components.
- Leading a small team or a project.
- Providing technical guidance.
- Performing code reviews.
- Designing and delivering on small/medium size projects end-to-end.
- Tackling impactful challenges.
- Building scalable backend systems.
Benefits
- Equity
- Extensive medical coverage
- Monthly lifestyle stipend
- Flexible PTO policy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
