Senior Backend Engineer

ROLE

• Design, develop, and scale backend systems that serve hundreds of thousands of users
• Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones
• Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable backend system
• Become an expert in backend development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms
• Collaborate across the company to define how our systems should evolve..
• Develop and utilize your skills as a mentor and leader
• Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
• Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems
• Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud

SOUND LIKE YOU?

• Experience: You have 5+ years of software development experience including 3+ years of backend experience.
• Detective: You have a deep desire to understand how things work in great detail, to guide you in designing systems, and debugging that arise.
• Problem solver: You excel at understanding and solving complex problems. You have astonishing attention to detail.
• Quality focused: You take pride in building elegant and beautiful things.
• Learning: You’re open to the best tool for the job. You are excited to learn new technologies.
• Technical communicator: You can break down tricky topics in writing and in person.
• Surprisingly efficient: You get a lot done quickly, and can translate your skills into new processes that your team will follow.
• Leadership: You will help to build an inclusive culture and shape our future