Senior Software Engineer (backend)

Senior Software Engineer (Backend)Our team is building a modern microservices-based multi-tenant SaaS platform that needs to be highly scalable and performant. We are looking for an engineer who has done this before to help us architect and build it right from the start. We are using Java/Spring, AWS, Lambda, Postgres, NoSQL, Kafka, and much more. Our company is still young so this role will get a chance to work across the entire backend and help bring our product to market. This is a high-impact/high ownership role and is expected to grow as our company does.Design, architect, and build Java/Kotlin microservices in an API first wayCollaborate with design, product, and other engineers to execute on our product roadmapAssist in setting up testing, pipeline, infrastructure, and deployment pipelines to ensure we can build and deploy fast and predictablyEnsure our software is working correctly and fix any customer issues with passion and dedication.Someone who builds microservices-based cloud products and platforms.A creator of beautiful REST API and someone who's willing to debate the most RESTFul way to describe an APIYou live and breath automation, can't live without a robust deployment pipeline, and can prove your code will work when it gets to production8+ years of software engineering experience5+ years recent experience Java3+ years AWS experience with some combo of EC2/ECS/RDS/Lambda/DynamoDbComfortable modeling data in both relational and non-relational databases, and know when to use themA person who's obsessed with customers and takes ownership for putting the customer firstWe are also proud partners of Pledge 1% and have pledged 1% of equity, 1% of the product, 1% of profits, and 1% of employee time for giving back.We believe in an open, remote-first culture that fosters creativity, individual ownership, and team collaboration.