Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Invaluable is an online live auction marketplace connecting bidders and buyers with auction houses worldwide. The company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build features, improve performance and reliability, reduce technical debt, and shape backend architecture and engineering standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship features end-to-end across any tier of the Invaluable platform, from implementation through testing and deployment
- Improve quality and maintainability by refactoring legacy areas and reducing technical debt with pragmatic, incremental changes
- Own reliability and performance: diagnose production issues, squash bugs, and improve UX with measurable outcomes
- Drive backend architecture and standards: propose patterns, tooling, and conventions that improve developer experience and long-term maintainability
- Collaborate effectively through pairing, code reviews, and shared problem-solving, including communicating clearly across time zones
- Mentor and support engineers by sharing best practices, offering feedback, and helping others grow through guidance and technical leadership
- Partner with Product and Design to clarify requirements, scope work, identify tradeoffs, and deliver high-quality user experiences
Skills
- 5–7+ years of professional backend engineering experience
- Strong proficiency with Java, and experience with one other language, either backend or frontend
- Experience working in and improving legacy codebases, with an ability to modernize safely over time
- Strong automated testing experience
- Dedication to writing clean code that performs well and is easy to understand and maintain. We encourage pragmatic AI-assisted development, with the understanding that all code must pass the same code review and quality standards
- Strong technical judgment. Ability to propose solutions, explain tradeoffs, and make pragmatic decisions for long-term codebase health
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to choose the correct level of detail for your audience
- Collaborative and kind. You should enjoy pairing, code reviews, and knowledge sharing, and be open to both learning and teaching
- Experience with ecommerce or payment products
- Experience with high-traffic consumer products
- Experience improving performance and observability in production
- Experience mentoring more junior developers
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS
- Experience with microservices architectures
Benefits
- Up to 20% profit share bonus
- 100% remote work for the entire company
- Approachable leadership. We are a small company, and leadership is involved and visible.
- A great team of smart, supportive people.
- Health care, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- 401(k) matching.
- Employee assistance plan.
- Paid parental leave.
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