Remote Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join us in building scalable, reliable backend systems for our cloud-based capture system and help improve the system design for the Chromatic product. We're looking for someone passionate about building delightful customer experiences with a focus on backend development.

Requirements

• 4+ years of real-world experience building backend systems for web applications
• 3+ years of experience writing production APIs (bonus points for GraphQL)
• Experience using Go, TypeScript, and Node.JS (It’s a plus if you have experience with other languages and Backend frameworks, too)
• Experience with distributed computing tools such as Docker, Fargate and messaging systems
• Excellent technical communication skills and enthusiasm for writing things down
• Passionate about testing and experience using test-driven development

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable backend systems in our Go and TypeScript stack
• Comfortable with cloud-based technologies like Fargate, Lambda, and RabbitMQ
• Work on some of our open source projects, such as the Chromatic CLI
• Design, develop, and refine APIs that serve internal and customer-facing products
• Work closely with the product team and full-stack engineers to help refine specifications and provide technical guidance
• Collaborate with other engineering teams at the company to take full-stack features to production
• Monitor and continuously improve our systems to maintain a quality standard and effectively respond to operational incidents

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with an IaC tool like Terraform, and general AWS operations experience and knowledge
• Experience with Visual Regression Testing and developing components in isolation (e.g., used Storybook, etc.)