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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in backend application development, API design, and database performance optimization, while effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality features. Proficient in cloud infrastructure and automated testing, ensuring system reliability and security.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Application DevelopmentAPI DesignDatabase Performance OptimizationCloud InfrastructureAutomated Testing
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAbout the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs
- Develop data models and improve database performance
- Build integrations with third-party services
- Improve system reliability, security, and observability
- Write tested, maintainable code and participate in code reviews
- Investigate production issues and address their root causes
- Help shape technical decisions as the product grows
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering to deliver features from design through production
Requirements
What you’ll need- Experience building and operating backend applications in production
- Strong proficiency in a backend programming language
- Solid understanding of API design, relational databases, and data modeling
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, automated testing, and deployment workflows
- Ability to balance speed with quality and make practical technical decisions
- Clear communication and a collaborative approach to solving problems
- Experience with distributed systems, background jobs, and event-driven architectures (nice to have)
- Familiarity with caching, queues, and performance optimization (nice to have)
- Experience working on a small team or an early-stage product (nice to have)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity
- Performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
- Employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expense accounts
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Paid coordinated company office closures
- Paid sick or safe time
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Charitable donation matching
- Wellness stipends
ATS Keywords
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Hard Skills
Backend Programming LanguageData ModelingRelational DatabasesDistributed SystemsEvent-Driven Architectures
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationCollaborative Problem Solving
Tools & Technologies
CachingQueuesPerformance Optimization
Industry Keywords
Production ApplicationsTechnical DecisionsCode Reviews