Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Job Description
Join the founding engineering team as Rally's 5th engineer 🎉. Work alongside the co-founder/CTO and founding engineering team to scale Rally's User Research CRM. You’ll be responsible for standing up core infra, creating new services used by our team of product engineers, and help build new features.
At Rally, we value small teams and full ownership. As a senior backend engineer, the expectation is for you to tech lead each project. You'll be responsible for planning, scoping, executing, testing, and finally releasing high quality, scalable services, infra, and products.
Lastly, by joining our small engineering team, you'll help build the company culture and define what engineering looks like at Rally.
Who you areYou’re a user-driven, kind, scrappy engineer who loves shipping code.
You’re a builder at heart who values putting the user experience above all else.
You care about well crafted products and have an opinion on what makes a product great
While passionate about learning new technologies, you understand technology is a means to an end
You're not afraid to get your hands dirty in an unfamiliar part of codebase to get the job done
You're energized after talking with a user.
You love moving fast. You know when to take shortcuts and when to dive deep.
You’re autonomous and communicative. You have strong opinions that are loosely held. You challenge the status quo but are quick to find common ground.
You bring your authentic self to work every day.
You are a team player and treat everyone with respect, including our users.
Co-own our core infra (AWS/Terraform, Postgres, Elasticsearch) and core backend services like email and search
Create new frameworks or libraries that can be leveraged by the product team to build new features
Lead backend focused product development by building new features into Rally
Stand-up 0 to 1 infrastructure across the stack
Ensure backend systems maintain a high bar for security, privacy, reliability, performance, and code quality
Fullstack Typescript (Node.js, React, Next.js)
- GraphQL
- Postgres
- Elasticsearch
- AWS / Terraform
- Github Actions
You have experience developing and maintaining complex web applications
You have experience building and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure
- You have deep experience with SQL
You have experience working with Javascript/Typescript OR are able to quickly ramp up to Typescript
Originally posted on Himalayas
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