Sketchy · 4 hours ago

Senior Software Developer, Backend

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$160K/yr - $180K/yr

6+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Collaborate with fellow Sketchy engineers, product designers, and product managers to design, review, and build well-crafted software.

Engage in an agile and iterative workflow to expediently launch new functionalities aligned with the demands of students and schools.

Improve the overall engineering quality through documentation, technical guidance and mentoring, and establishing and upholding best practices for the team.

Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur.

Ability to effectively break down product requirements, analyze specifications, and decompose them into manageable tasks for development, ensuring a clear roadmap and successful implementation.

Qualification

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AWSInfrastructure as CodeDistributed SystemsRelational DatabasesSQLJavaScriptNode.jsTypescriptNestJSDockerScalable architecturesMonitoring toolsGenerative AI

Required

6+ years of hands-on experience in developing consumer applications using modern frameworks and technologies

Proficiency with AWS (EC2/Fargate/Lambda/Queues), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Metrics / Reporting, Distributed Systems, Redis, Relational Databases, and SQL (PSQL)

Experience with JavaScript, Node.js, Typescript, NestJS (or other modern frameworks)

Experienced in Docker and containerization techniques.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, both technical and non-technical.

Proven expertise in designing and implementing scalable application architectures and code.

Exceptional problem-solving skills and experience working in a startup environment.

Knowledgeable about modern tooling for instrumentation, monitoring, metrics, and performance and cost analysis. Examples may include Data Dog, New Relic, Heap, and AWS monitoring.