Senior Back-End Engineer

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Take ownership of critical back-end initiatives within your squad, ensuring continuity in ongoing and planned work
• - Build and optimize APIs, enhance system reliability, and expand integrations to support evolving product needs
• - Improve observability, logging, and monitoring to reduce friction in key workflows, address performance bottlenecks, and enhance system stability
• - Contribute to the development of new and existing capabilities, helping teams make smarter decisions and optimize workflows through intelligent, data-driven solutions
• - Work closely with product, engineering, and platform teams to ensure seamless alignment between product features and core infrastructure
• - Proactively surface and address scaling challenges, optimizing systems for future growth
• - Ensure performance, reliability, and scalability as usage expands
• - Help shape new product features that enhance user experience, automation, and real-time data accessibility

Required Skills

• - Strong understanding of engineering principles for delivering high-quality services in a growth-stage business
• - Experience designing and building services for modern cloud architectures on platforms like GCP and AWS
• - Proficiency in PHP and Node.js within a production environment
• - Expertise in SQL and NoSQL database technologies, with a focus on MySQL and MongoDB
• - Experience in designing and developing services within a microservices architecture
• - Familiarity with serverless architectures (e.g., Cloud Run, App Engine) and the ability to discern appropriate usage scenarios
• - Knowledge of event-driven and asynchronous architectures for building scalable and reliable distributed systems
• - Experience developing integrations with third-party APIs
• - Ability to work independently and make decisions while recognizing the boundaries of expertise and knowing when to seek input or assistance from teammates
• - Strong written communication skills to convey ideas, document solutions, and maintain effective collaboration across a globally distributed team
• - A strong focus on the end-user experience, with the ability to advocate for improvements and provide constructive feedback to engineers, designers, and product managers
• - A practical approach to problem-solving, balancing the need for immediate, functional solutions with long-term goals and improvements
• - Comfortable with asynchronous communication as the default, with previous remote experience and familiarity with tools like Slack, Loom, and Linear

Benefits

• - Global async remote company with a diverse team
• - Perks and benefits designed to support living our Best Work Life
• - Transparency and shared Float Handbook publicly
• - Significant deep work time with very few meetings