Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Encora as a Senior Software Engineer and become part of a team building secure systems for a fitness and wellness ecosystem. You will collaborate with other teams to design, implement, and deploy products, build and maintain backend systems, and practice engineering best practices. This role requires at least 7 years of relevant experience, including expertise in building large-scale SaaS products and backend services using object-oriented languages like C# or Java. You should be experienced in microservice architecture, monitoring systems, and Agile methodologies. The position offers a work-from-home arrangement.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in related roles
• Senior Experience in programming large-scale SaaS products
• Experience building backend services with an object-oriented language such as C# or Java
• Experience designing and architecting backend services
• Experience Designing and working with Microservice architecture
• Experience with monitoring systems such as New Relic or Kibana
• Familiarity with SDLC and programming design patterns, and Agile methodology
• Experience reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks
• Detail-oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude
• Ability to communicate professionally both verbally and in writing

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and QA to iterate on the design, implementation and deployment of our product
• Build and maintain backend systems and applications
• Seek different perspectives and solicit honest feedback
• Practice engineering best practices (e.g., automated testing, code reviews, proper monitoring)
• Take delight in delighting our users
• Care about our studio partners and want to help them grow their business
• You love to design robust and easy to use APIs and services

Preferred Qualifications

• You know the best software is created through collaboration and iteration and you’re looking for the right opportunity, and the right team, to expand your experience
• You seek feedback because it has the ability to turn good work into great work
• You like to ship software early and often; you value simplicity and strive to eliminate unnecessary complexity