Location: Remote
Senior Backend Engineer
Engineering
Welcome to the Global No.1 College Data Platform
Authority ranks education by what matters most. We're a group of rouge specialists that have fled the corporate world to unite in liberating truth from the stranglehold of big tech.
We're data engineers, data scientists, software engineers, designers and analysts. Data is all we do.
If you're driven to transform ideas from paper to reality, passionate about bleeding edge tech, and inspired to solve some of the worlds most exceptional challenges alongside a brilliant people, Authority may be just for you.
"Authority may be just for you."
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software development
- Strong proficiency in languages such as Javascript, Java and C#
- Strong knowledge of object oriented programming
- Extensive experience in frameworks such as Spring, .Net, Nest.js
- Significant experience in serverless workloads
- Extensive experience architecting and deploying REST APIs
- Track record in tuning performance of applications
- Ability to create tests at unit and integration level
- Ability to monitor applications in production and effectively troubleshoot
- Extensive knowledge of relational databases and non-relational database engines
- Ability to act as tech lead and team lead
- Proven track record working distributed systems and especially cloud-native architectures
What You'll Do
- Solve exceptional challenges with brilliant people
- Touch various industries from edtech to fintech
- Move ideas from paper to reality
- Architect and implement custom software solutions
- Coding approximately 80% of the time creating MVPs and proof of concepts
- Building REST APIs for various applications
- Migrating legacy applications into innovative microservice architectures
- Implement best practices of continuous integration and deployment
- Build scalable asynchronous and synchronous systems
- Environment allowing for boundaries to constantly be tested
- Agile methodology is fundamental
- Role level is flexible, depending on experience the hire could be junior or specialist level
Perks & Benefits
Top of Market Compensation
International Travel
Annual Offsites
Authority University
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