Backend Software Engineer
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:
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.