Senior Backend Engineer (core-team)

We are looking for strong and independent backend engineers to join our core team. This is an opportunity to join at the ground-floor as one of our first employees, and spread awesomeness to developers around the world.

Permit.io empowers developers to bake in permissions and access-control into any product in minutes. Backed by two leading US VCs, we are based in Tel Aviv (Azrieli / Hashalom area) and are remote friendly. 

In this role you will be responsible for building applications, including anything from complex groups of back-end microservices to CLI utilities and language-specific SDKs. You will have great autonomy driving the roadmap and delivering outstanding features to our users.

• 3+ years of relevant experience in building scalable, high-performance systems.
• Extensive experience with modern software languages (Python / Golang / NodeJs)
• Hands-on experience delivering products over public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong knowledge of SQL / NoSQL databases.
• Startup mentality and hands-on builder type personality
• Knowledge of best practices relating to security, performance, and monitoring.
• Highly dedicated individual with a “can-do” approach
• Team player who is eager to be an early adopter of new technologies

• Architect, develop, and maintain Permit’s core features and backend infrastructure
• Deliver high quality, scalable, reliable, and extensible APIs
• Integrate and contribute to cutting-edge open source solutions such as OPA and Google Zanzibar implementations, and to our own open source project(s) - OPAL.ac (used by leaders like Tesla and Zapier)
• Implement smart indexing and caching algorithms to meet our strict SLA
• Collaborate closely with the founders and the rest of the core team, mentor fellow engineers and become a domain expert