Perspective is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Perspective as a Senior Backend Engineer for Automations, where you will take ownership of one domain of our software, build new features for our customers, and sometimes even for other teams. You will leverage your skills to design and implement services that improve our level of automation and integration, develop and maintain our data pipeline, enabling users to use their data with integrations of major third-party platforms like Facebook, Google, and Zapier.

Requirements

• You are intrinsically motivated for owning and driving core backend parts of a SaaS product
• You have a strong problem solving mindset with the customers in mind
• You have a strong entrepreneurial mindset, we do not want to micromanage people, we want to empower them and know they know what's best for our customers to drive initiatives end to end
• You are fluent in English both written and verbal (knowledge of the German language is a plus)
• You have 6 or more years of experience as an Engineer
• You are capable to program in Node.js and Typescript, if you have experience with CDK, nice!
• You have experience in architecting and implementing an API and running it in production
• You know your basics as an engineer, best practices, principles, patterns, you name it
• You have a good understanding of challenges and common approaches in distributed systems
• You have already worked with a NoSQL database in a professional production environment

Responsibilities

• Develop new features and improve existing ones in an iterative way so that they're reliable, secure, scalable, well-tested, cost efficient and performant
• End2end ownership following the you-build-it-you-run-it principle: You're part of the full lifecycle of our products, i.e. from discovery through implementation, releasing to operating, observing and maintaining them
• Work remotely and collaborate in cross-functional teams with a high level of autonomy
• Solve what matters: we don't want you to be an engineer that just finds a solution for a problem but a product engineer that solves the issues of our customers and builds products they love

Benefits

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