Responsibilities

• Be the project owner, design, develop, implement, and maintain both new and existing backend systems with tech depth
• Demonstrate strong leadership to coordinate across multiple teams to define and prioritize engineering projects
• Able to work in a highly dynamic and often ambiguous start-up environment to proactively drive initiatives and clarify requirements 
• Guide and mentor peer engineers in distributed system design, best practice and project management

 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of relevant work experience in software development and building large-scale applications
• Experience working with cloud services like AWS, Heroku, or Google cloud platform
• Hands-on experience with modern programming languages such as Java, Python, Javascript
• Experience in different databases. Relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, ...) or NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra)
• Extensive REST API development experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a team player