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Saturnposted 3 months ago
$165,000 - $210,000/Yr
Full-time - Senior
Onsite - New York, NY
Crop Production
About the position
Saturn Technologies is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join their team in New York City. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, guiding app architecture, and leading the development of user-facing features. The ideal candidate will have extensive backend development experience and a strong understanding of modern web application best practices.
Responsibilities
- Working on a cross-functional team, utilizing extensive knowledge and experience in building complex applications.
- Collaborating with Product Managers and Designers from the beginning of projects to create user-friendly experiences.
- Communicating and managing relationships with client engineers on iOS and Web to ensure seamless integration.
- Promoting a disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation, and code structure in a team setting.
- Leading the development and ownership of large user-facing features/epics, from design to implementation and launch.
- Guiding the app architecture to align with industry best practices and engineering excellence.
- Playing a crucial role in elevating the team's technical skills and efficiency.
- Being hands-on, writing automated tests, and providing thorough feedback in code reviews.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant backend development experience
- Strong understanding of best practices for modern web apps, APIs, and microservices
- Strong leadership and organizational skills with the ability to mentor team-mates
- Experience working with and scaling relational databases such as Postgres or NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB
- Experience with concurrency theories and implementations
Nice-to-haves
- Python web development experience (FastAPI, Flask, Django, etc.)
- Experience scaling high-growth systems and diagnosing performance bottlenecks
- Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, ElastiCache)
- Experience working with and scaling multi-container Docker in production environments
- Experience working with background jobs (Celery with Redis, etc.)
- Experience working with real-time communication (websockets preferred)
Benefits
- Full benefits
- Stock options
