Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Aspire
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Posted:
July 31, 2023
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Remote
About the position
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our remote Engineering team at Aspire. As a product-driven developer, you will play a crucial role in building innovative solutions to support brands and their communities worldwide. Collaborating with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, you will lead large-scale features and projects on our web applications. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to set engineering best practices, improve testing and monitoring, and influence technical and product strategies. With a focus on growth and personal development, Aspire offers a fast-paced and forward-thinking environment for you to thrive in.
Responsibilities
- Leading solutions for difficult problems and focusing on major projects for the platform and applications
- Setting standards and driving engineering best practices for development and operational excellence
- Improving testing and monitoring for systems
- Influencing technical strategy, software architecture, and product strategy
- Implementing features and functionality that require database design and optimization
- Managing and documenting APIs and interfaces to facilitate team collaboration
- Building software applications with NodeJS and relational databases
- Collaborating and mentoring as a team player
- Demonstrating expertise in scalable architecture, software design patterns, and reliable and scalable system design
- Bonus points for experience in building systems for data interaction and insights, developing APIs for third-party applications, scaling robust systems for data ingestion and combination, and interest in marketing, social media, e-commerce, or ph.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience building software applications
- Highly motivated to build and improve products, even in a remote environment
- Expertise with building web applications with NodeJS and relational databases
- A true team-player; someone that looks for opportunities to collaborate and mentor
- Deep experience with scalable architecture and a variety of software design patterns
- Deep experience with reliable and scalable system design
- Deep experience with driving engineering best practices
- Bonus points if you have:
- Built systems that enable users to interact with and derive insights from a lot of data
- Developed APIs and systems that support third party applications
- Scaled robust systems to ingest and combine data from multiple sources
- Have an interest in marketing, social media, e-commerce, or ph
Benefits
- Global Perks & Benefits
- $100/month Wellness & Internet
- Personalized growth plans
- $2500 annual education credits
- Unlimited PTO (flexible vacation policy)
- $400 equipment/remote setup budget
- 401k Plan
- Health, vision, dental Insurance