Senior Backend Software Engineer

GOAT Group

18h

About The Position

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, to solve complex problems gracefully, grow scalable systems, and help to shape our technical vision. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll take an active role in breaking down projects into tasks, as well as the implementation methods used. We are solving a wide range of technical challenges as we power a leading fashion marketplace. This is an opportunity to join a team of smart, thoughtful engineers with a clean, robust tech stack. We are organized into cross-functional squads, where you’ll get to use some skills you already know, learn new ones, and help take the team to the next level. We are community driven, and supporting our sellers is critical as our marketplace continues to grow and thrive.

Requirements

4+ years of engineering experience.
Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications.
Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services.
Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning.
Professional experience with the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS).

Responsibilities

Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
Extend our API and back-end systems
Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster
Add to and improve our testing environment
Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti-fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more
Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes
Keep up with the latest development trends in server-side technologies
Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise
Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
Be part of an on-call rotation
Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows