Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Localize
Posted 10 months ago
We Work Remotely
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