Nordsec Security AB is hiring a
Back-end Staff Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Backend Engineer at Nord Security's NordPass team. The role involves supporting architectural designs, participating in strategic tech initiatives, promoting documentation culture, analyzing and troubleshooting complex technical problems, implementing automated testing frameworks, monitoring system performance, mentoring backend engineers, and reporting to the senior leadership team. Core requirements are deep experience in microservices architecture, understanding of event-based systems, 5+ years of PHP/Golang ecosystem, experience with at least one cloud provider, strong communication skills, and a self-driven approach.

Requirements

• Deep experience in microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Understanding of event-based systems and messaging patterns (and an eagerness to share your knowledge in event-driven architecture)
• 5+ years of PHP/Golang ecosystem is a must
• Experience with at least one of the following cloud providers: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience in solving database performance and reliability issues
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• You demonstrate a pattern of self-driven approach to developing high-quality and long-term technical solutions quickly to support business goals

Responsibilities

• Support NordPass squads in high-level architectural designs for complex systems
• Participate in large, strategic tech initiatives, such as migration to an event-driven architecture, applications modularity, automation testing, continuous delivery implementation, and more
• Promote documentation culture. Maintain technical documents, including diagrams and specs, for clear system understanding by all stakeholders
• Analyze and troubleshoot complex technical problems, using various tools and techniques to identify root causes (including documenting handbooks for future reference) and help squads design practical solutions to eliminate them for long-term
• Support the implementation of automated testing frameworks across the organization to ensure the software is reliable and robust
• Continuously monitor system performance, identify improvement areas and risky vulnerabilities, and implement changes to optimize performance
• Help the teams to identify and overcome technical debt and issues that reduce productivity
• Handle frequent context switches to drive and support the most important initiatives at the time in NordPass
• Mentorship for backend engineers, helping them grow, deal with responsibilities, overcome obstacles, and remove blockers
• Continuously report and advise the senior leadership team in planning and designing the technology roadmap
• Be an ambassador for the NordPass brand and partner in hiring our Talent Acquisition Team. Contribute to the hiring technical assessment process

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of additional architecture patterns: CQRS, event-sourcing, etc
• Experience with one or more programming languages for implementing Backend systems (Go, PHP, Java/Kotlin/Scala)
• Leading investigations into production incidents, from identifying the root cause and post mortems
• Driving initiatives in decoupling monolithic architecture into microservices

Benefits

• Access to Nord Security products
• Professional growth opportunities
• Health benefits (private health insurance, online and on-site workouts, consultations to feel and be your best)
• Mental wellbeing support (access to mental health tools like Calm, Headspace, and Mindletic. Options for therapy to keep your emotional wellbeing in check)
• Team spirit events (team buildings and parties with games, shows, tastings, food coupons, gifts, and it’s on us)
• More free time (additional vacation days will be added to your calendar)
• Additional paid leave (additional days are covered by us in cases of illness or special occasions)
• Flexibility (flexible working time arrangement)