Remote Sr. Backend Developer

Summary

The job is for a Backend Software Engineer at CloudHire. The role involves collaborating with teams, building cloud services, resolving performance issues, and focusing on application performance. Requires 5+ years of Backend experience, proficiency in Python and TypeScript, RESTful APIs, MongoDB, AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, and a BS in Computer Science.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in Backend development, with a focus on Python and TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
• Experience with MongoDB
• Experience with Serverless technologies, including AWS Lambda
• Experience with infrastructure as code, particularly CloudFormation
• High attention to detail, flexible, and able to work concurrently on multiple projects
• Ability to troubleshoot, research, and work through complex problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• You have a BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Designers, and other Software Engineers to deliver new functionality and iterative improvements to customer-facing products
• Build efficient, scalable, and reusable cloud services using Python and TypeScript, and Infrastructure as Code tools
• Building and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with various data stores, including MongoDB
• Participate in code reviews with other engineers
• Focus on knowledge sharing with other engineers
• Identify and resolve scalability and performance issues
• Focus on application performance and monitoring

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in working with modern CI/CD and engineering tooling – we leverage Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions and AWS CloudFormation extensively
• Experience with agile methodologies

Benefits

CloudHire works closely with its team to help you grow as much as we grow, and value your holistic development