Early hire: 🛠️ Senior Backend Engineer

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Offer summary

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in professional software engineering roles., Proficient in Node.js and AWS in a production environment., Experience with Typescript is a bonus., Ability to interface effectively between backend and front-end systems..

Key responsibilities:

  • Contribute to the codebase and help establish the technical foundation of the company.
  • Participate in long-term architectural and technical design decisions.
  • Work on a variety of tasks as an early backend/fullstack hire.
  • Collaborate with a small team to solve complex problems efficiently.

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Kovo Consumer Services Startup https://kovocredit.com
2 - 10 Employees
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Job description

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Join us as an early senior backend hire! If you have experience building stable and performant systems at scale, we'd love to chat. We're looking for someone who can continue meaningfully contributing to our codebase as our team grows. Our backend stack is Node (Typescript) on AWS.

About you

  • You love building great software that serves a lot of people

  • You're an independent go-getter and very self-motivated

  • You're comfortable working remotely

  • You've worked with Node and AWS in a production setting

  • You've worked at least 5 years in a professional software engineering role

  • You're able to effectively interface between backend and front-end

  • You have Typescript experience (bonus)

What you'll do

  • A little bit of everything! You'll be an early backend/fullstack hire, so you'll have input in a lot of long-term architectural and technical design decisions. You'll help establish the technical foundation for the entire company.

Why you might be excited about us

  • We're working to solve a massive societal problem

  • You'll be able to contribute efficiently, without bureaucracy, and with broad responsibility

  • If we can effectively solve a problem asynchronously, we do

  • We don't micromanage and will help you do great work

  • We care about you and will work to set you up for success in the future

Why you might not be excited about us

  • We're a very small team

  • Projects and priorities tend to shift

  • There's still a lot to build

Required profile

Experience

Industry :
Consumer Services
Spoken language(s):
English
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Other Skills

  • Self-Motivation
  • Communication

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