Software Engineer - Backend

Summary

Join Meroxa as a talented engineer to build highly performant distributed systems with an emphasis on resiliency, security, and scalability. You will play a critical role in enabling Meroxa's growth by building tooling and internal systems essential for other engineers to monitor, debug, and safely deploy software.

Requirements

• Strong technical background with software engineering and designing large scale systems
• Extensive experience with languages such as NodeJS, Ruby, or Java and the willingness to learn new technologies
• Solid OOP and software design knowledge – you should know how to create software that’s extensible, reusable and meets desired architectural objectives
• Work autonomously, excited by new technologies, and will never back down from the challenges of scale
• Listen well and internalize the best ideas from all over the organization, while also setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
• Work well cross-functionally and your co-workers at all levels and across all teams trust you

Responsibilities

• Addressing and solving complex problems at both an application and system level
• Collaborating effectively with teammates, technical partners, and the open source community
• Owning and managing all the phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support)
• Designing, building, deploying, and maintaining microservices optimized for high-availability, throughput, fault tolerance, & performance
• Challenging architectural choices we make in building platforms or products/services at Meroxa
• Teaching and mentoring other engineers to level up our collective capabilities and knowledge

Benefits

• Competitive salaries - We know you're in high demand, so we aim to be in the top 10% of salaries based on what you'd make as a Silicon Valley engineer
• Remote work - Work from where you want. We've been a remote first company from day one
• Health, dental, & vision - Meroxa offers PPO and HMO plans for you, your family, or domestic partner
• Unlimited vacation - We know you'll love working at Meroxa so much that you'll want to stay heads down every day and night but seriously we want you to take the time you need to bring your best self to work
• Paid parental leave - When you welcome a new baby, Meroxa encourages you to take up to 16 weeks leave as primary caregiver and up to 6 weeks leave as secondary caregiver, at 100% paid salary