Staff Backend Engineer

Posted about 2 months agoViewed

💎 Seniority level: Staff

📍 Location: Canada, EST, PST

🔍 Industry: Sales compensation management

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: SQLETLNosqlSparkCommunication SkillsData modeling

Prior experience designing and building complex backend solutions.
Solid background in schema design and data modelling, SQL and ideally some NoSQL solutions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
History of reducing ownership cost and improving reliability and observability in a product.
Deep appreciation for building end-to-end customer facing products with a strong sense of customer empathy.
Interest in being involved in product direction and establishing best development practices.
Thrive in a detail-oriented collaborative environment with Product, Engineers, and Analytics teams.
Big plus if you have a background working with Spark, or other ETL tools/frameworks.

Reporting to the Manager of Data Platform, the Staff Backend Engineer will play a critical role in the evolution of our Spark based data platform.
You'll lead development efforts for our complex, data-rich platform features while being an example to the team of code quality and thoughtful software design.
You will be working on the most challenging code at Forma.

Posted 3 months ago

📍 United States, Canada (BC & ON)

🧭 Full-Time

💸 $187,000 - $263,500 per year

🔍 Web development

7+ years of experience developing and deploying web applications.
Proficient with Node.js, TypeScript, and Next.js and can design and write scalable services and APIs using Express.js and MongoDB.
Experience debugging production issues across complex, multi-service architectures.
Proven experience building complex web systems that scale efficiently.
Experience with Stripe and/or billing systems for payment processing solutions.
Experience with testing frameworks (e.g. Jest, Mocha, Playwright, Cypress).
Comfortable working in an agile, safe-to-fail environment.
Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Architect, design, and implement scalable multi-tenant backend services and APIs.
Work on technologies such as Node.js, Javascript/Typescript, Next.js, MongoDB, GraphQL, Apollo, AWS, Kafka, etc.
Lead projects that directly contribute to team and engineering organization's deliverables.
Mentor junior engineers in technical skills and Webflow culture.
Collaborate with product managers and designers in an autonomous team environment.
Participate in engineering citizenship activities such as co-authoring engineering blogs.

GraphQLNode.jsAgileCypressExpress.jsJavascriptJestKafkaMongoDBTypeScriptStrategyAmazon Web ServicesGoNext.jsCommunication SkillsCollaboration

Posted 3 months ago

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