Cortex is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to help build a new category of developer tooling, solving deeply technical problems and diving into scalability issues to power their enterprise Internal Developer Portal.
Requirements
- 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
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
- Participate in operating our systems in production, including Incident Response on a rotational basis
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices
- Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences
- We’re fully remote and welcome candidates from anywhere in the US!
