Lead Backend Engineer

Summary

Join ASAPP, a company dedicated to delivering the best AI-powered customer experience, and become part of a team of talented engineers working on microservices for their product. You will collaborate with other engineers to develop new features, improvements, and fixes, handle scaling challenges, participate in technical interviews, and be part of on-call rotations. ASAPP values a fast-paced environment, collaboration, and continuous learning, offering competitive compensation, stock options, health insurance, wellness perks, learning and development stipends, Mac equipment, vacation time, and English lessons.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience building software with either Python, Java, Go, or C++ (we use Go, but we'll teach you if you haven't used it)
• Self-learner, independent, and have outstanding problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Totally comfortable with all aspects of backend engineering

Responsibilities

• Join a team of great engineers that owns parts (microservices) of our product
• Collaborate with other engineers and teams to develop new features, improvements, and fixes to handle our current and future scale
• Be in touch with cloud infrastructure challenges and bring solutions to scale
• Collaborate with our recruitment process in technical interviews
• Be part of the team’s on-call rotations

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Service Oriented Software Architectures
• Web service development, REST or SOAP APIs
• Scalable distributed applications experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Stock options
• OSDE 410 for the family group
• Wellness perks
• Learning & development stipend
• Mac equipment
• 3 weeks of vacation
• English lessons