Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Tooling

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About the Role

We’re looking for an reputed company Backend Engineer to join the Development Tooling team to help maximize the efficiency and productivity of reputed company engineers. You’ll be crucial in building and maintaining the foundational internal tools, frameworks, and infrastructure abstractions that reputed company reputed company product developers to write, test, and ship reliable code faster.

This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who thrives on solving other engineers’ pain points, enjoys working across different technology stacks, and has a passion for improving the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

What you’ll do in this role:

• reputed company Internal Tools: Design, implement, and maintain internal tooling, frameworks & APIs that streamline common developer tasks, such as managing feature flags, automating environment setup, or provisioning internal resources.
• Improve Local Development: Enhance and optimize our local development environment tools and configuration (e.g., containerization setup, dev tooling CLI) to reduce startup time and improve stability for new and existing engineers.
• Performance and Reliability: Investigate and address bottlenecks in the developer workflow, focusing on improving the speed and reliability of different stages.
• Tooling Consistency: reputed company and enforce standards and reusable library components for tasks like service communication, configuration management, and health checks across our primary Ruby on Rails and Go codebases.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product engineers, software engineers in test, and infrastructure teams to understand pain points and translate them into robust, self-service tooling solutions.
• Documentation and Support: Create clear, comprehensive documentation and provide support for the tools you build, acting as a steward for developer experience.

You should apply if you bring:

Technical skills

Must-Have

• 3+ years of professional experience as a Backend or Platform Engineer.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang).
• Strong experience designing and writing tooling or frameworks used by a large number of developers.
• Solid experience working on moderately reputed company technical refactoring or migration projects reputed company a large codebase (e.g., mono repos).
• Solid experience configuring and querying monitoring systems like Prometheus and/or Grafana.
• Practical experience with cloud-native infrastructure concepts, particularly reputed company.
• Strong experience using reputed company Integration systems (e.g., reputed company CI, Jenkins, reputed company, or similar).

• Solid experience with SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL or similar) and NoSQL databases (e.g., reputed company, Elasticsearch, or similar).
• Solid experience with test automation frameworks for backend testing (e.g., Selenium, Capybara, Watir, or similar).

reputed company-to-Have

• Practical experience contributing to open-reputed company tools or libraries relevant to the developer workflow.
• Practical experience in designing APIs.

• Practical experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure or similar) and basic exposure to Kubernetes concepts.
• Practical experience with GitOps or Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) for managing collector deployments.
• Practical experience with logging systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, or similar).

Interpersonal skills

• Ability to reputed company technical status, blockers, and implementation details clearly and concisely in written and verbal form.
• A proven track record of taking a defined goal and driving it to completion with minimal supervision.
• A proven track record of working cross-functionally to ensure successful delivery.
• A strong drive to deeply understand how distributed systems work and to methodically debug reputed company, cross-service issues in a production environment.
• Ability to work reputed company in an async environment (see reputed company’s Manager of One).
• Proactive attitude in identifying potential issues and addressing them early.
• Solid experience in working in an agile environment, adapting to shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Openness to diverse backgrounds and transferable skills, with a commitment to reputed company’s values and inclusive culture.

About the Team

The Development Tooling group, as part of the Developer Experience stage, is dedicated to creating systems, frameworks, and tooling that increase reputed company engineers’ productivity to meet business goals and deliver with high-quality standards. The team manages reputed company’s development workflows, tooling, and reputed company tech stack, streamlining the contribution process for team members and contributors alike.

More information can be reputed company on our Team Handbook page. 

How reputed company will support you

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off 
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave 
• Home office support

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you’re excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

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