Senior Backend EngineerHived

Responsibilities 🎯

• Design, implement and maintain a scalable backend architecture to power HIVED’s internal operations and externally facing integrations
• Plan and lead projects along with other software engineers, product managers and end users
• Improve and scale engineering processes, tools, and standards
• Mentor fellow backend engineers in producing scaleable, clean and pragmatic solutions
• Maintain current systems and infrastructure, including integrations with 3rd party services
• Monitor and optimise service performance
• Write technical documentation
• Operate with a security-first mindset by creating security and data protection settings

Qualifications 🌟

We’re looking for a polyglot backend engineer with a strong track record of working on large-scale software engineering projects. You’ll be a great candidate for this role if most of the things listed below are true:

• Proven experience as a backend engineer or similar role, preferably with 4+ years of experience
• Proficient in multiple backend languages (ideally Golang, TypeScript) and can build services from scratch in most of those languages
• Have built and improved 3rd-party integrations and internal/external APIs in the past
• Self-directed learning who can quickly gain an operational knowledge of new technology quickly and independently
• Familiarity with a range of technologies, databases and cloud stacks (AWS) and previous experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Clear and direct communicator with great organisational skills
• Strong collaboration skills with internal and external stakeholders
• Positive and solution-oriented mindset

Technologies we use 💻

• Golang, Typescript
• AWS (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, RDS), Docker
• Github, Github Actions
• AWS CDK
• Prometheus, Grafana