Lead Backend Engineer

The Role:

– Implement and maintain the API endpoints, services, and workers that power all of the exciting new features on our roadmap.

– Write efficient and concise SQL queries to use within our app, for reporting data metrics, and managing the integrity of the data within our databases.

– Identifying and troubleshooting errors and performance issues that occur within our infrastructure.

– Participate in designing and building systems for maximum performance, reliability, and scalability.

– Work closely with frontend, quality assurance, and product teams.

– Be able to conceptualize all the various parts of our infrastructure and how they all work together.

Qualifications:

– Bachelors Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.

– 4+ years of experience writing and maintaining API’s in a production-level environment (preferably with Node.js).

– Knowledge of SQL and relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).

– Experience with AWS or another cloud service.

– A strong self-starter, operationally-focused; a problem-solver.

– Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

If you are seeking a new challenge, please send your CV to matthew.mcgrigor@goodmanmasson.com