Backend Software Engineer

Web Development United States


Description

Overview
Number8 is seeking qualified candidates to fill the role of Backend Engineer. 

In addition to a competitive salary rate and a positive work environment committed to delivering high-quality technology solutions, we also offer:  
  • Flexible schedules and authentic work-life balance  
  • Opportunities for continuing education  
  • Social activities per country sponsored by the company  
  • Birthday celebration  
  • Payment in US Dollars  

About the role
Our client is the leading venture-backed provider of Application Relationship Management software, enabling complex, global enterprises to discover and protect the relationships between users, digital assets, and data.   
We are looking for a Backend Engineer to design and create web applications and software solutions. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, software engineers, operations, and QA teams. Your expertise in software development will contribute to the stability, reliability, and feature advancement of our customers.    
Main Responsibilities  
  • Design, develop, and implement reliable and scalable web applications, APIs, and web visualizations for a data-driven product  
  • Work with a team of highly skilled engineers and product managers to analyze requirements and contribute to the planning, estimating, and work breakdown of new features, defects, and technical changes  
  • Work with an Agile team following Kanban practices with a strong Jira discipline  
  • Follow and contribute to software best practices like unit testing, security, performance & scale, logging, and documentation  
Job Skills/Requirements  
- +90% English written and oral (at least B2 level) with excellent communication skills  
- Strong REST API development skills, knowledge of best practices, supporting frameworks, and tools (e.g. Swagger, Postman)  
- Advanced expertise in GoLang and Python (ideally with their latest versions)  
- Strong understanding of oAuth and RBAC practices for securing APIs  
- Experience with SQL, GraphQL, or other query languages  
- Experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases  
- Experience with building and deploying to Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm  
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)  
- Comfortable in web-related troubleshooting with knowledge of networking (e.g. DNS), load balancers, reverse proxies, and basic web server knowledge (e.g. NGINX)  
- Expertise in SPA applications using React and TypeScript is a plus   
- Ability to take business requests and break them down into manageable steps to achieve a goal  
- Capable of designing a moderately sized software project, putting together a project plan to accomplish it, tracking progress, and executing it with a team  
- Able to see the big picture of how systems interact with one another  

   

  

Apply today to learn more about this exciting opportunity. We are actively interviewing now for this position.