Senior Backend Developer

We are looking for a passionate software developer to join our engineering team. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, developers, QA engineers, and technical writers to develop some of our flagship products. The best fit for our team would be a person that wants to solve customers' problems rather than just close issues in the task tracking system. With a passion for clean code and best practices, you'll help shape the future of enterprise productivity tools.
What You'll Do
• Write efficient, readable, maintainable, and testable code using Kotlin, Java, and other server-side languages and frameworks
• Create unit tests, sometimes integration and performance tests
• Review your peers' code
• Solve challenging problems with a great attention to user experience, security and performance
• Cooperate with product managers, designers, software developers, QA engineers, and technical writers to develop and maintain software products used by thousands of people worldwide
Who You Are
• 4+ years of experience in server-side development of commercial web applications in Java and/or Kotlin
• Experience with TypeScript and the React ecosystem are a definitive plus
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related studies
• Working knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals: big-O, basic data structures, and algorithms
• Skills in designing APIs
• Has experience with building highly scalable distributed systems
• Has experience with Kubernetes and AWS
• Has experience with SQL queries and database performance, as well as experience with NoSQL technologies, such as MongoDB or AWS DynamoDB
• Ability to express thoughts clearly, including explanation of technical decisions
• Upper-intermediate spoken and written English
• Solid soft skills to communicate in a multicultural environment
• Ability to work autonomously and remotely without extensive control or micro-management, ability to start working without complete technical specification
• Ability to learn and have productive communication on topics which the candidate doesn't know 100% in advance
• Ability to work with the teammates on elaborating technical specifications
• Experience with performance optimizations considered a plus