[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Solace is a Series C startup focused on transforming healthcare by pairing patients with expert advocates. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will independently manage your product workflow, design scalable services, and maintain robust backend systems to support a revolutionary product.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable services and APIs to drive existing and new features for web applications
- Architect and maintain robust backend systems, database models, and infrastructure that power our platform
- Analyze product requirements and produce high-quality, production-ready code with a focus on system reliability and performance
- Maintain the health of our systems and codebase, refactor and make improvements, and keep our systems robust and resilient
- Jump into frontend code when needed to support the team and ship features end-to-end
- Be autonomous. You'll take full ownership of your work, and you take responsibility and accountability for every last detail, every step of the way
- Be a collaborator. You'll work with other engineers and cross-functional partners in product and design to build a world-class product and lead new initiatives to improve our user experience
- Write clear specs to ensure product/code quality for stress-free deployment
- Drive large releases to production on a continuous deployment cadence
Skills
- Experience working in a start-up environment
- 5+ years of relevant experience in backend development with some frontend exposure
- Strong fundamentals in API design, database architecture, and distributed systems
- Expertise in Typescript/Node and backend frameworks
- Comfort with React and frontend technologies—you can jump in and contribute when needed, even if it's not your primary focus
- An intuitive understanding of what it takes to create performant, scalable systems that power delightful user experiences
- Strong communication skills that help you influence product direction and help collaborative visions come to life
- Extreme bias toward action and execution. You get antsy if you're not writing code, improving the codebase, and vigilantly enhancing the systems that represent the big-thinking work
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