Lead Software Engineer, Backend
$215k - $245kFull-time
Cortex
Role Description
We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer, Backend to join our team and help us build a new category of developer tooling. You will solve deeply technical problems and dive into scalability issues. You will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining the core backend systems that power Cortex while working closely with the product and support engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements
- Work alongside other engineers to build new features and enhance existing ones
- Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems
- Participate in operating our systems in production, including Incident Response on a rotational basis
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices
- Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences
- Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of experience building backend applications using any modern programming language
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing platforms
- Experience with modern data storage solutions, such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
- Knowledge of current standard methodologies and to try, learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages
- Solid fundamental skills in data structures, algorithms, and web development best practices
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers
Requirements
- Starting Salary Range: $215,000 and $245,000
- Competitive Equity Package
Benefits
- National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!)
- Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours
- 401k plan
- Gender-neutral parental leave
- $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
- $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything)
- Pet Insurance
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