Assess technical solutions to ensure they align with product strategy, providing insightful recommendations on priorities and trade-offs.
Lead large-scale refactors and system upgrades, estimating scope and proactively managing risks in collaboration with stakeholders.
Expand into architectural and systems thinking, documenting system structures and processes clearly for cross-team understanding.
Serve as technical leaders and mentors, enabling team growth by delegating responsibilities and fostering collaboration.
Drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver impactful business outcomes.
Basic Qualifications
Proven experience in core backend engineering, including scalable APIs, service design, and database modeling.
Expertise in database design and performance optimization, with both relational and non-relational databases.
Knowledge of computer science fundamentals such as object-oriented design, algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis.
Proven experience designing and deploying systems using AWS services in production environments.
Track record of success enabling engineering teams and business outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with building customer facing React applications, ideally leveraging TypeScript
Experience building production backend API’s supporting customer facing features
Full-stack development is strongly preferred, but mastery of front-end with the desire to achieve full-stack competency is possible.
A passion for building quality, testable code leveraging automation and a habit for actively improving the quality of a codebase “in passing."
A “player-coach” mentality, capable of simultaneously making strong technical contributions while mentoring others within the context of small cross-functional teams.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills, especially within website, application servers,
- network, and databases
A strong focus on our customers, both internal and external.
High ownership and accountability of delivery and your work product.
Optionally, experience with a refactoring initiative or contributing to a legacy codebase.
Experience working in a growing company, Start-Up or Growth Stage
Tech Stack
Microservices Development: Node, GraphQL, schema-driven design, and API best practices.
Frontend Frameworks: React, Redux, single-spa, or similar front-end technologies.
Infrastructure as Code: Tools such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK for scalable and reliable infrastructure.
Service-Oriented Architecture: Building platform teams, shared services, and modular architectures.
Backend Frameworks: Nest.JS with TypeScript or Python Frameworks (Django, Fast API or Flask API)
DynamoDB and MySQL for our database
AWS for infrastructure and hosting
Docker & Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration
GitHub for source code management and continuous integration
If you are passionate about building high-impact software and solving meaningful problems, we would love to hear from you!
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Travel Requirement: Employees who are not based in the Nashville area are required to travel to our Nashville office at least twice per year for company gatherings, such as Connect Week. Additional travel to Nashville may be required based on your role and business needs.
Perks
The rare opportunity to radically disrupt a $1.5T industry
Competitive benefits including: uncapped vacation [US ONLY], medical, dental & vision insurance
Robust compensation package, including equity in the form of stock options
Learning Grant program to support ongoing professional development
401k with match and expedited vesting [US ONLY]
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