Senior Backend Engineer (Core Product)

Location: United States , Canada, North America, Latin America (LATAM), South America

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

The Position

The Impact

• Design build and maintain performant backend services in TypeScript that power our core personalized experiences.
• Build and grow scalable infrastructure APIs and event driven services that deliver data driven features to users.
• Support and optimize production ready backend systems so they stay fast and dependable under load.
• Integrate and manage services such as PostgreSQL MySQL AWS SQS and Centrifugo in the backend.
• Make systems reliable secure and observable so people can trust their DNA data is safe.
• Own and drive end to end feature development with a strong eye on user experience.
• Write clean reliable code with performance and maintainability in mind from the start.
• Champion clean code technical excellence and continuous improvement across the team.
• Debug test and performance tune across services to catch problems before users feel them.
• Maintain modernize and migrate legacy code so older systems keep up with new demand.
• Take ownership of complex problems and drive them to a clear working solution.

Dominant and Expressed Traits

• 5+ years of backend development experience.
• Expert with TypeScript and comfortable owning production backend services.
• Experience with functional programming.
• Deep hands on experience with PostgreSQL MySQL and service based architectures.
• Strong debugging testing and performance tuning skills.
• Able to work independently while collaborating closely with key teammates.
• Customer driven with a passion for building systems that deliver exceptional experiences.
• Nice to have familiarity with genomics health data or personalization systems startup or fast paced environments or Rust.