Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our Core Team as a Backend Engineer and build impactful tech used by top-tier Fortune 50 financial services institutions. You'll be a pivotal part of our team overcoming technical limitations while accelerating project timelines!

Requirements

• Ability to balance business concerns with technical goals
• Possesses intellectual humility and seeks out constructive criticism of their work
• Generates positivity and lift in the skills of those around them
• Takes ownership of their codebase, even if they didn’t write that code
• Recognizes the value of documentation and boring code (and the dangers of unnecessary complexity)
• Seeks out coaching and takes critical feedback well
• Positive can-do attitude with the ability to thrive amidst ambiguity as needed

Responsibilities

• Build the systems that drive the business and enable our customers through the advancement of PerformLine's capabilities
• Develop robust APIs that power our new frontend applications, ensuring seamless integration and performance
• Experience in integrating Python applications with services and APIs developed in Go
• Optimize SQL query performance and PostgreSQL table structures & indexes
• Optimize applications for scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness within an AWS ecosystem
• Work with other software engineers and product managers to get products and features safely, securely, and quickly to our clients within an Agile environment
• Be a Force Multiplier: Be an example to more junior engineers for creating documented, performant, secure, and efficient code
• Make the whole team better by advocating for best practices, gently reminding people of why the processes we have exist, and helping less experienced engineers find ways to ‘level up’
• Embrace having a large impact on team morale, culture, feedback, and even recruiting
• Represent your engineering organization outside of the company

Benefits

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering for cloud based platforms
• Experience developing queries and maintaining SQL databases
• Production-level experience with Python
• Bonus points if you’ve worked in Go!
• Experience creating and maintaining REST APIs
• Exposure to working in an Agile environment
• Advanced AWS cloud tools like SQS, OpenSearch, Lambda and architecture knowledge
• Understanding of the entire web development process, with an emphasis on back-end systems