Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GOAT Group is a leading platform for authentic sneakers, apparel, and accessories, and they are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to solve complex problems and grow scalable systems. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to build features, extend back-end systems, and mentor other engineers while addressing various technical challenges.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
- Extend our API and back-end systems
- Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster
- Add to and improve our testing environment
- Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti-fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more
- Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes
- Keep up with the latest development trends in server-side technologies
- Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise
- Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
- Be part of an on-call rotation
- Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows
Skills
- 4+ years of engineering experience
- Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications
- Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services
- Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning
- Professional experience with the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS)
Benefits
- 401K
- Paid time off
- Dental
- Medical
- Vision
- Disability
- Life insurance options
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