Sr. Backend Engineer - WishX - Remote

Job Description

Our WishX team embodies the company’s approach to innovation. It functions as an internal incubator for new business ideas and is empowered to take calculated risks, think creatively, and embrace different perspectives. By constantly iterating and deploying, we have the freedom and flexibility to try out new ideas and work toward the best solutions.

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We have the following exciting REMOTE opportunity within the WishX team:

Sr. Backend Engineer

• Design and implement systems that work based on the business requirements
• Design and implement unit testable code that are highly maintainable
• Design and implement data models/schemas in the data access layer
• Collaborate with both internal and external UI/backend engineers to shape and define API contracts
• Communicate and suggest new ideas and designs in both written and verbal formats

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Qualifications

• Experience building MVP's with future improvements in mind not being afraid to move forward with existing deficiencies to be later improved
• Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are up 24/7 and easy to maintain and monitor
• Experience designing API's with Test Driven Development, TDD or understand the importance of TDD
• Experience working with both relational and documented oriented datastores such as Postgresql, MySql, MariaDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, etc
• Expert in OOP and building modular unit testable code
• Ability to understand highly complex legacy systems and to come up with improved designs
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous backend processing jobs
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Great track record of working well with others

Additional Information

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