Mimica is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is a backend engineering role at Mimica, focusing on enhancing and scaling the backend systems of their platform. The role involves architectural decisions, developing APIs, optimizing performance, refactoring components, providing feedback to peers, and taking end-to-end project management responsibilities.

Requirements

• Background in backend engineering, focusing on developing high-performance production software and scalable architectures
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, and a willingness to utilize various modern frameworks and technologies (e.g., Docker, K8s) to build high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Practical experience in designing APIs and managing databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB), with a keen eye for query optimization and efficient data storage & handling
• Commitment to upholding high engineering standards, prioritizing code quality, maintainability, reliability, and security
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills – methodically decomposing systems to identify bottlenecks, determine root causes and implement effective solutions
• Fluency in English, with effective communication skills – articulating complex ideas, concepts, and trade-offs clearly

Responsibilities

• Contributing to architectural decisions and collaborating across teams to identify and implement product improvements
• Developing and optimizing a real-time backend service that enables multiple users to edit graph data and re-train AI models through their input
• Creating libraries and building APIs in our Node backend to interact with the various ML components of the system
• Diagnosing fault-tolerance and availability issues, as well as performance bottlenecks, and resolving them
• Refactoring our components and services and producing documentation for your implementations
• Providing feedback to peers through pair programming and code reviews and helping those around you to level up
• Participating in hiring and onboarding new team members; taking on end-to-end project management responsibilities as we grow

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience owning projects from start to finish, including speccing, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and monitoring
• Firm grasp of distributed systems concepts and techniques – microservices, load balancing, caching, horizontal/vertical scaling and stateless architectures
• Working knowledge of secure software design principles and familiarity with secure communication protocols and data protection mechanisms
• Experience working within a high-impact, high-ambiguity startup environment – delivering value quickly and iteratively
• Active interest in AI, automation, or related fields

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Ample paid time off
• Flexible schedules and location
• Start-to-finish project ownership
• The opportunity to contribute to projects that will change the future of work