Senior Backend Developer - remote

Auvik Networks
Posted 3 years ago
Why should you consider joining Auvik?
  • You want to build something that matters. Auvik’s network management tools are critical to the growth of remote work for SMBs. Our tools allow professionals to remotely monitor and manage critical infrastructure, which creates confidence in the services they deliver.
  • You want a leadership team you can trust, and one you can talk to. Our senior leadership team is experienced, they have the vision, and continue to drive success for Auvik.
  • You want to grow and learn. Auvik is growing—fast. You will work with a leading edge tech stack on a team of incredible talent. Learning happens here!
  • You want to work on products customers love. Our latest customer NPS score was 57 (which means our customers rave about what we’ve built). We build for demanding and highly technical users so it pays to get the details right.
  • You’ll benefit from seasoned engineering leaders who create an environment to enable the team for success and support your career development.
  • We provide flexibility in your work schedule, home-based offices, flexible vacation, regular entertaining events and AWS immersion days of training and development.

What’s the job about?

As a software developer at Auvik, you’ll be part of an agile team of coders, developing a network management service that monitors millions of devices, while solving big challenges for our customers. Drawing on your love of developing creative solutions, your can-do attitude, and your drive to do great work, you’ll help Auvik continue to build software our customers can rely on.


What will you be doing?

The industry is shifting towards cloud based systems and distributed work environments. We need senior software developers like yourself to level up on our product offerings. In this role, you will:
  • Focus on designing architectures for microservices that are consistent, scalable, high quality and tolerant to faults and failures.
  • Deploy and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes orchestration.
  • Design and implement protocols for communication in a highly scalable, distributed system.
  • Develop reliable and performant code for our collector deployed at tens of thousands of customer sites.
  • Develop tooling using information from Netflow, Syslog, and other networking standards.
  • Help expand the depth and breadth of our solution based on your deep knowledge of networking devices and protocols.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product management to deliver software components to meet the needs of our customers.  

What are we looking for?
  • 7+ years of experience developing quality code and architectures preferably using C++ or Golang).
  • Background in  designing and developing microservices.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing, preferably AWS.
  • Adept in building reliable, highly available, and scalable software on top of the Kafka streaming platform.
  • Proficiency in agile methodologies such as scrum.
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline to test and deploy.
  • Passion for mentoring and guiding junior and intermediate team members.
  • Enthusiasm towards researching new technologies and making recommendations based on experiences and findings.
  • Accountability towards following processes and making suggestions for improvements.
  • Desire to collaboratively create elegant, scalable, modern, code that evolves our products.
  • Strong communication skills (written and verbal) to work collaboratively with the immediate team and the larger organization.
Our Stack
  • React
  • GraphQL
  • Scala
  • Go
  • C++
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
How do you apply?

Make sure you include these two things:
  • A note that tells us why your skills and experience are a great match for Auvik.
  • Your resume.