Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Summary

Join Bobtail, a company dedicated to improving supply chain efficiency, and become a key member of a collaborative team. We value experimentation, iteration, and a solutions-oriented approach. This software engineering role requires 5+ years of experience in building highly available and performant distributed systems, proficiency in Node.js, Typescript, and system design, and a Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. You will be responsible for writing efficient and secure code, working with large-scale financial systems, and contributing to a positive team culture. Bobtail offers a flexible work environment, including work-from-home options, paid time off, parental leave, and a monthly mental health break day.

Requirements

• Exposure to SDLC from reviewing requirements through to debugging complex systems in Production
• Strong theoretical fundamentals and hands-on experience designing and implementing highly available and performant fault-tolerant distributed systems
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as nodejs, typescript and overall system design
• Experience building enterprise software, event driven microservices architecture, and distributed systems at scale
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related engineering degree

Responsibilities

• Write reusable, testable, efficient and secure code
• Work with large scale, highly available and resilient modern financial systems
• Work with automated deployment, enabling code release multiple times a day
• Work with modern tools and languages that excite you
• Be an integral part of a team, in addition to its culture and ways of working. Common practices include agile methodologies

Benefits

• Monthly Mental Break Day
• Paid Time Off
• Work from home (or wherever)
• Parental leave