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Original Job Post

Cortex · 1 week ago

Senior Backend Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$135K/yr - $200K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements

Work alongside other engineers to build new features and enhance existing ones

Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems

Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members

Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices

Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences

Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes

Qualification

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Backend DevelopmentDistributed SystemsMicroservicesCloud ComputingData Storage SolutionsMySQLPostgresMongoDBData StructuresAlgorithmsWeb DevelopmentProgramming LanguagesProblem-SolvingAnalyticalCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience

5+ years of experience building backend applications using any modern programming language

Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing platforms

Experience with modern data storage solutions, such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.

Knowledge of current standard methodologies and to try, learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages

Solid fundamental skills in data structures, algorithms, and web development best practices

Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

Strong communication and collaboration skills

Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers

Benefits

National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100%)

Fully covered life insurance

$400 monthly perks stipend

$1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend

401k plan

Pet Insurance

Unlimited PTO

Remote & flexible working hours

Gender-neutral parental leave

All-Company Retreats (previously San Diego, Miami, Austin)

Company

Cortex

Cortex is the leading internal developer portal empowering engineering teams to do their best work.

Founded in 2019

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.cortex.io

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