Senior Backend Engineer

October 20, 2024

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Atticus

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Atticus is a law firm dedicated to helping individuals secure aid from government and insurance systems during times of crisis. Specializing in disability benefits, workers' compensation, and veterans' benefits, Atticus provides free, expert advice, matching clients with top-tier law firms to ensure they receive the compensation they deserve. With a user-friendly process, Atticus simplifies the journey to obtaining legal aid, offering fast and effective help with a high satisfaction rating from thousands of clients.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2020

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🌍 Social Impact

📋 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