Are you a back-end wizard who loves autonomy and taking charge? 🧙♀️ We're on the lookout for an assertive Senior Back End Wizard who can set their own working hours while aligning with our fun and dynamic team. Your skills and opinions will be highly valued, and you'll play a crucial role in our development process. You'll be responsible for delivering stellar code and conducting your own QA to western standards. 🌟
What You Will Do:
- Set your own hours while aligning with team working hours (1pm - 12am Sydney EST / 8pm - 7am LA time).
- Design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems using our awesome tech stack.
- Be bold and confident in team discussions and decision-making processes.
- Take 100% ownership of your work, including any mistakes, and be expected to own them. Be reliable and ensure you do what you say when you say it.
- Deliver top-notch code and perform thorough QA to meet western standards.
- Create lightning-fast database queries to ensure performance and scalability.
- Reimagine and re-architect back-end systems to adapt to new and growing application needs.
- Have a good grasp and some experience with front-end technologies.
- Effectively communicate with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and aligned with project goals.
What You Can Expect:
- Proven experience as a Senior Back End Engineer.
- Strong proficiency in our tech stack.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and assertively.
- Experience in re-architecting back ends for scalability and performance.
- Strong QA skills with an eye for detail.
- Strong experience in MySQL and MongoDB.
- Passion for working with mental health and helping others.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Reliable and trustworthy, with a commitment to owning your work.
- Ideal candidate will have had 10 years of development experience.
- Beneficial, though not critical, to have a passion for AI, Python, and LangChain.
What You Need For The Role:
- Work on a unique and impactful platform that combines the best of Netflix and Udemy.
- Be part of a team that values your skills and listens to your opinions.
- Contribute to a product that has achieved product market fit and continues to scale successfully.
- Make a difference in the mental health space, helping over 350,000 students improve their lives across five countries.
- Most of our team members stay with us for over 2.5 years.
