Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Localize
Posted 7 months ago
As aLocalize engineer, you’ll be responsible for the infrastructure, APIs, and databases that power Localize’s core product. You will lead the development of a scalable and performant back-end platform. We’re looking for a strong engineer with at least six years of experience who works well on a small team and is excited about impacting and improving customers' experiences.

What You’ll Do:

  • Optimize, design and maintain document (NoSQL) databases
  • Build and update APIs that power our front-end
  • Be actively involved in architecture decisions
  • Contribute code, both front-end and back-end, as needed to help deploy amazing features
  • Collaborate daily with other remote engineers, product and customer-facing teams
  • Participate in peer code reviews
  • Help keep our product running smoothly
  • Learn new technologies, architectures and methods
  • Suggest improvements for our product, processes and technology
  • Assist in maintaining scalable, performant infrastructure

Our Core Stack: Experience with these specific technologies a plus, but not strictly required

  • JavaScript: React/Redux on Front End, Node/Express (REST APIs) on the Back End plus vanilla JavaScript in our SDK
  • Datastores: MongoDB (Mongoose.js ODM), Redis, S3
  • Infrastructure: AWS: Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, Elasticache, Cloudfront, Cloudflare
  • Tooling: Github, Jira, CircleCI, Jest, and many more