Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Candidly is looking for a seasoned engineer to join our engineering team. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be part of a team leading and being a part of a team committed to autonomy, accountability, and ownership of various high-quality solutions built with modern technologies and best practices in mind.

To ensure success, you should have in-depth knowledge of all aspects of web application development, both from a technical (Frontend to Infrastructure) and non-technical (Product Discovery, through Delivery, to Customer Success) perspective. You should be able to evaluate needs, time limitations, and system limitations when conceptualizing solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain services in Candidly's Backend PHP and Python architecture
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains
• Suggest application architecture improvements and recommend process improvements
• Champion changes to the team's tools and processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the development team
• Document processes for use by other application developers and to comply with regulations
• Participate in business and technical planning
• Write functional/technical specifications from the product requirements
• Provide monitoring and guidance in application design and development to other staff
• Provide thought leadership in designing and developing innovative integrated solutions

Required Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication skills in English, both verbal and written
• Developing PHP code leveraging PHP frameworks such as Laravel, Phalcon, or Symfony
• Must demonstrate strong critical thinking and analytical reasoning skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Developing API RESTful Architectures
• Gathering and maintaining data from internal and external APIs
• Working as a part of a Lean/Agile engineering team, executing assigned project tasks within an established schedule
• SQL database management and queries
• High read/write usage applications
• Data Handling Compliance Experience
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Self-motivated and able to independently identify and implement needed improvements
• Able to work remotely and independently
• A love of experimenting and working with new tools and technologies
• Ability to take a project from POC to Production-ready implementations
• Track record of developing complex software systems and the ability to explain the implementation details

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Automated Testing, Monitoring and Observability Experience
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
• Previous startup experience
• DevOps and continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD)
• MySQL database administration
• Docker experience
• AWS Tools (EC2, RDS, Lambdas)