Braintrust is hiring a
Sr. Software Engineer - Backend

Summary

The job description is for a Senior Software Engineer position at Braintrust, a user-owned talent network. The role is a freelance/contract position, remote, and open to candidates in India and the Philippines. The candidate should have 8+ years of hands-on programming experience in one of the specified languages and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field preferred
• 8+ years of hands-on programming experience in one of the following languages: Javascript
• Proficient with API and services development, working with databases, and query optimization
• Experience developing technologies such as Node.js, GraphQL, PostgresDB, MongoDB
• Experience operating and maintaining live web services and troubleshooting live issues
• Experience developing fault-tolerant distributed systems from the ground up, including requirements-gathering, architecture design, project breakdown, and execution
• Experience defining team-level technical processes, such as code reviews and testing
• Experience developing and operating services at scale
• Experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS)
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

• Design/Architect, develop, test, improve and deploy systems that serve our users
• Drive designs of major software components, systems, and features within your squad and also cross teams
• Use your understanding of the product and our business goals to build proven and high quality solutions inline with our long-term strategy
• Work closely with engineering and product managers in your team and across teams
• Analyze website performance and implement solutions for improvement, including unit and integration tests
• Participate in code review, deployment, and improvements to our ability to ship reliable code
• Helping support other engineers through technical leadership, mentorship and lending a helping hand