We’re seeking a highly knowledgeable and experienced backend engineer who enjoys early stage environments that provide freedom to move fast and ship new customer-facing products and features at high velocity. You’ll work closely with the founders of the company and have a high degree of influence and input into the direction of the product and company. The right candidate will have a high degree of versatility and excels at creating software at all layers of web application platforms. The role requires outstanding communication and customer empathy skills. Since we are a remote first company, you will simultaneously need to be able to collaborate well, and be self-directed and work independently.
This role is contract, but we are open to contract to full time hire for someone that proves themselves over time.
The ideal person will be passionate about building consumer data privacy software, and will have experience across most of these areas:
- NodeJS and web development
- Writing tests
- Asynchronous jobs execution / event brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Databases - Postgres, SQL, and NoSQL (Redis, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra)
- User data security best practices
- Designing core, backend software components
- Implementing integrations with third-party APIs
- Diagnosing and addressing performance issues
- Kubernetes, micro-services, and resource management
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- HTML/CSS
- Bonus if you have experience working in the consumer privacy or consumer data industries, Python and automation tools
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