Perspective is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer in Worldwide

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Engineer at Perspective, a profitable bootstrapped company with 40 employees and over 5000 customers. The role involves developing new features, performing QA and testing, improving application performance and stability, and enhancing the integration part of their app.

Requirements

• Intrinsically motivated for owning, analyzing and improving core backend parts of a SaaS product
• Strong problem solving mindset
• Good at managing projects and interests from various stakeholders as well as finishing projects on time
• Birds-eye-view to recognise business critical bottlenecks and enjoy participating proactively within the whole company
• Capable of programming in Node.js and Typescript
• Experience in production and continuous development of an API
• Experience working with SOLID, DRY and KISS
• Already worked with MongoDB in a professional production environment
• General understanding of different API systems like Rest API
• Fluent in English both written and verbal (knowledge of the German language is a plus)

Responsibilities

• Develop new features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Take ownership of key parts of the software and develop concepts, advocate for improvements
• Collaborate in cross-functional teams throughout the company to build solutions for opportunities and challenges
• Continuously improve our features by hardening the system through documentation and refinements
• Take part in recurring team meetings and be a proactive member of your team, collaborate in our cross-function teams
• Brainstorm, evaluate, and select new initiatives with the most impact towards the company’s goals
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health of our services
• Establish and maintain best practices for deployment, scaling, and configuration
• Ensure the reliability and scalability of our infrastructure
• Collaborate with other teams to optimize our database performance and ensure the security of our data

Benefits

• Remote & Freedom
• Responsibility, Ownership & Impact
• Personal & Professional Growth
• Best Equipment & Remote Budget
• Team Events
• Cordial & passionate team