Backend Engineer

Paragon One's mission is to bridge the divide between education and the workforce. We are doing this with the Remote Externship is the first fully-managed internship alternative enabling companies to scale diversity, education, and impact. Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, Zillow, investment firms, and other companies are among the early adopters of our platform and have helped drive 400% YoY growth. Paragon One was founded by a team out of MIT, is remote-first with offices in NYC & Beijing, and backed by YCombinator, Foundation Capital, University Ventures, Learn Capital, and Jason Calacanis.

We are looking for a full-time back-end engineer to accelerate the transformation of how students build skills and get work experience. You’ll be a true partner with the CTO in shaping our technical strategy. You should love solving problems and shipping products. This is NOT a place to try out that new exotic framework or over-engineer a complicated solution for a simple problem. As a small team, we require practical, reliable solutions that meet the ever-changing needs of our product and business. You will have the opportunity to take on a lot of responsibility, shape the product, plan system architecture, and see the impact of your work every day.

Responsibilities: ***Collaborate with the CTO on product specs, system architecture, and technical strategy ***Build and document back-end REST API endpoints ***Integrate API endpoints with low-code front-end tools while rapidly testing product features ***Collaborate with front-end engineers ***Build and maintain technical integrations for both external and internal users ***Maintain system reliability (AWS devops) ***Manage relational data architecture ***Ensure that the product vision is realized through excellence in execution

Requirements: ***Node.js back-end (advanced) ***MySQL + Postgres databases with complex queries (advanced) ***AWS devops (intermediate) ***Front-end Javascript, HTML, CSS (basic) ***Low-code & automation tools (willing to learn) ***Serverless architecture (willing to learn) ***Data pipelines and transformations, DBT (willing to learn)

Read about us: www.ParagonOne.com