Senior Backend Engineer

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Peerspace

πŸ’΅ $155k-$185k
πŸ“Remote - United States

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Summary

Join Peerspace, a leading online marketplace for venue rentals, as a Senior Software Engineer on the backend team. You will become a technical expert in business-critical microservices, collaborating with various teams to deliver functionality meeting technical and business needs. This high-impact role involves working with modern server-side technologies, improving platform reliability and scalability, mentoring junior engineers, and championing user experience and security. The position requires 5+ years of software development experience and expertise in microservice architecture. Peerspace offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

  • 5+ year of experience in software development
  • Experience with microservice architecture, distributed systems, and API design
  • A strong history of problem solving for short, mid and long terms objectives
  • Familiarity with at least one of the following: pub/sub and message queue patterns, finite state machines, idempotent request handling, or data modeling
  • Many examples of projects that you were responsible for end to end

Responsibilities

  • Become the technical expert in business-critical microservices and maintain them in production
  • Partner with product and design, business stakeholders, and other engineers to identify and deliver functionality that meets technical, product, and business requirements
  • Ship frequently - we develop in 2 week sprints that include retros focused on evolving and tuning our process
  • Work with modern server-side technologies like Clojure, Node.js , Mongodb, Postgres, Google Pub/Sub, and Kubernetes
  • Drive initiatives to improve the reliability and scalability of the platform
  • Participate in our culture of improvement by joining code review meetings, writing technical documentation, and reviewing PRs for your teammates
  • Serve as a mentor to more junior engineers
  • Champion the experience and security of our users and keep their privacy top of mind at all times

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in a start-up environment
  • Clojure experience or interest

Benefits

  • 100% employee coverage of medical, dental and vision insurance
  • $500 annual professional development allowance
  • Discount on all Peerspace bookings
  • Laptop, high res display, and stipend to setup home office
  • Monthly cell phone and internet credit
  • Coworking membership if needed (in lieu of home office)
  • Access to the Peerspace network of inspiring spaces to do your best work
  • Flexible take it as you need it time off policy
  • Wellness Fridays observed company wide
  • Annual in-person, all company offsites and team-building events (in Peerspace locations, of course)

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