Senior Backend Engineer

October 20

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Description

• Atticus helps people in crisis access legal aid through technology. • Design, build and operate Atticus’ APIs with a focus on performance, modularity, extensibility, and reliability. • Work with product to evaluate and refine product details and acceptance criteria • Architect, design, write, review, and test code in a collaborative environment with other software engineers. • Evaluate storage technologies and methodologies with an eye toward scalability and performance. • Leverage your peers as multipliers for your skills to create excellent products and services. • Join a fast-growing Series B startup that doubles as a B-corp social enterprise. • Shape company culture and help clients in need.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience writing idiomatic JavaScript, Golang, Java, Python, Scala, or Ruby. • You build modern, resilient and operationally sane backend systems exemplifying industry standards (HTTP REST, GraphQL, Stream processing, Big Data). • You enjoy teaching and mentoring teammates on backend system best practices and architecture • You work well with product to clarify and translate requirements for teammates • You use a modern version-control system for your source code repository (Git, Mercurial, GitHub, BitBucket). • You lint all your code or know you should. • You know what parts of your code require tests and you write those tests. • You use objective judgment in leveraging the right frameworks and technologies. • You are versed in cloud computing systems (GCP, AWS, etc.) and SAAS concepts. • You leverage continuous integration systems to their full extent (CircleCI, Bamboo, Jenkins, TravisCI). • You plan for, build, evolve and scrutinize monitoring and alerting for your production systems. • You are willing and able to deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain your systems in production and staging environments.

Benefits

• Medical and dental insurance with 100% of employee premiums covered • 15 vacation days & 16 paid holidays each year • Free membership to OneMedical • $1,000/year reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work • $600/year reimbursable stipend for internet service • Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance • 401(k) and optional HSA • Free snacks, drinks, weekly lunches, and regular team dinners/events/retreats • Humble, thoughtful, smart, fun colleagues