We're looking for a top-tier Backend Engineer who has an eye for detail and is committed to delivering top-notch quality. You will play an integral role in developing and growing our flagship product - Setmore.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for crucial aspects of our product development and architecture. Working closely within a component team, alongside various specialists and business stakeholders, you'll be pivotal in shaping our NextGen engineering culture. You will be a key player in guiding decisions regarding architecture, engineering and design decisions for scheduling domain within Setmore.
Roles and responsibilities
- Drive our efforts in designing Backend architecture.
- Develop new features in our stack.
- Write high-performing, clean code that is easy to test and maintain.
- Perform regular code reviews.
- Passionately pursue zero-defect code and support other developers to ensure that the deliverables exceed business expectations.
- Assist in defining and refining our internal standards, practices, and processes to continuously improve our outcomes.
- Champion performance, reliability, and security of our products and services across multiple devices and browsers.
- Refactor existing codebase to improve readability, maintainability, and performance.
- Act as a subject matter expert and support your colleagues.
- Regularly collaborate with other engineers, designers, QAs, and PMs.
- Create and maintain clear, accurate technical documentation to support effective collaboration and understanding across teams.
- Identify, troubleshoot and promptly resolve backend issues and bugs to ensure a smooth user experience.
Must have
- 7+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable and cross-platform web applications using modern technologies.
- Excellent working knowledge of backend technologies including Java 17, Spring Boot, RESTEasy, Node.js, Express, and Redis.
- Strong working knowledge of Design Patterns: REST API, and Messaging - Cloud Pub/Sub (or Kafka or Amazon equivalent).
- Strong experience working on the API design and integration, API versioning and change management, and proficiency in API design best practices.
- Proficiency in database technologies such as SQL and NoSQL databases, including strong understanding of ACID.
- Experience or certification with GCP.
- Committed to writing clean code and following software development best practices and standards.
- Experience in working on high-traffic applications.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Experience in working with distributed systems.
- Experience with CI/CD systems.
- Experience dealing with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale; must have a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems.
- Experience in working on at least a few different products with different objectives, limitations and challenges and flexibility in figuring out the best approach.
- Experience in refactoring code to improve the design and structure of the product.
- Ability to be an individual contributor and a proactive team player based on the requirements of the hour.
- Ability to navigate the challenges and maximise the opportunities that arise while working in a remote environment with diverse global teams using various modes of communication and information sharing.
- Committed to collaborating to solve problems together with empathy and creativity.
- C1 level of English language proficiency (both written and verbal).
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and / or organisational problems.
- Experience in mentoring and training junior engineers.
Good to have
- Experience with GitHub Actions.
- Experience with Gradle.
- Knowledge of booking/ scheduling domain or experience working on related products.
- Working experience in SaaS products.
- Experience in building product from scratch.
Why choose FULL
Do you want to work on a product that has transformed the lives of over 60,000 global users Setmore, ranked as one of Forbes's top 7 scheduling apps, helps businesses grow and thrive. With more than 6 million monthly appointments, we make scheduling dreams a reality; irrespective of the business size. This is your chance to change the scheduling world with us!
About Us
We are a Portland-based SaaS product company on a mission to empower businesses to work from Anywhere. Our global team of engineers, designers, testers, product experts, customer experience associates, and marketers come together to create a better way to work. Our products and services help businesses to be more productive, flexible, and scalable. Together, we can change the way the world works!
