Senior Backend Engineer

Job Description

Archipelago is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining complex data services, with a focus on flexibility and developer experience. This role offers an exciting opportunity to be part of a talented, passionate, and mission-driven group.Responsibilities include:

• Building, deploying, and iterating on new features and capabilities of the Archipelago SaaS API platform stack.
• Collaborating with other engineers, design, and product teams to build out new capabilities and designs.
• Owning the quality of deliverables through good design, implementation, and unit testing.
• Taking on a lead role in requirements gathering, scoping, and planning projects from beginning to end.
• Driving the continuous improvement of the existing codebase by participating in code reviews, refactoring legacy code, and measuring code coverage and performance.
• Guiding and mentoring junior engineers.
• Shipping code to production frequently.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience providing backend development to products and enterprise software.
• 2+ years of experience working with Golang and background with other back end languages and tools.
• Strong knowledge of RESTful APIs and well-developed practices around versioning and error handling on remote interfaces.
• Experience with integrating 3rd party APIs.
• Experience working in cloud-based environments, e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Building data-driven services on top of databases such as Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, etc.

Archipelago offers benefits to help employees lead healthy, balanced lives.