Senior Backend Engineer

We’re looking for a top-tier Backend Engineer who has an eye for detail and is committed to delivering top-notch quality. You will play an integral role in developing and growing our flagship product - Setmore.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for crucial aspects of our product development and architecture. Working closely within a component team, alongside various specialists and business stakeholders, you'll be pivotal in shaping our NextGen engineering culture. You will be a key player in guiding decisions regarding architecture, engineering and design decisions for scheduling domain within Setmore.

Roles and responsibilities

• Drive our efforts in designing Backend architecture.

• Develop new features in our stack. 

• Write high-performing, clean code that is easy to test and maintain.

• Perform regular code reviews.

• Passionately pursue zero-defect code and support other developers to ensure that the deliverables exceed business expectations.

• Assist in defining and refining our internal standards, practices, and processes to continuously improve our outcomes. 

• Champion performance, reliability, and security of our products and services across multiple devices and browsers. 

• Refactor existing codebase to improve readability, maintainability, and performance.

• Act as a subject matter expert and support your colleagues. 

• Regularly collaborate with other engineers, designers, QAs, and PMs. 

• Create and maintain clear, accurate technical documentation to support effective collaboration and understanding across teams. 

• Identify, troubleshoot and promptly resolve backend issues and bugs to ensure a smooth user experience. 

Must have

• 7+ years of experience building scalable, maintainable and cross-platform web applications using modern technologies. 

• Excellent working knowledge of backend technologies including Java 17, Spring Boot, RESTEasy, Node.js, Express, and Redis.

• Strong working knowledge of Design Patterns: REST API, and Messaging - Cloud Pub/Sub (or Kafka or Amazon equivalent). 

• Strong experience working on the API design and integration, API versioning and change management, and proficiency in API design best practices.

• Proficiency in database technologies such as SQL and NoSQL databases, including strong understanding of ACID.

• Experience or certification with GCP.

• Committed to writing clean code and following software development best practices and standards.

• Experience in working on high-traffic applications.

• Experience with microservices architecture.

• Experience in working with distributed systems.

• Experience with CI/CD systems.

• Experience dealing with performance and optimisation problems, particularly at large scale; must have a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems. 

• Experience in working on at least a few different products with different objectives, limitations and challenges and flexibility in figuring out the best approach.

• Experience in refactoring code to improve the design and structure of the product. 

• Ability to be an individual contributor and a proactive team player based on the requirements of the hour. 

• Ability to navigate the challenges and maximise the opportunities that arise while working in a remote environment with diverse global teams using various modes of communication and information sharing. 

• Committed to collaborating to solve problems together with empathy and creativity. 

• C1 level of English language proficiency (both written and verbal).

• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and / or organisational problems. 

• Experience in mentoring and training junior engineers. 

Good to have

• Experience with GitHub Actions.

• Experience with Gradle.

• Knowledge of booking/ scheduling domain or experience working on related products.

• Working experience in SaaS products.

• Experience in building product from scratch. 

Why choose FULL?

Do you want to work on a product that has transformed the lives of over 60,000 global users? Setmore, ranked as one of Forbes's top 7 scheduling apps, helps businesses grow and thrive. With more than 6 million monthly appointments, we make scheduling dreams a reality; irrespective of the business size. This is your chance to change the scheduling world with us!

About us

We are a Portland-based SaaS product company on a mission to empower businesses to work from Anywhere. Our global team of engineers, designers, testers, product experts, customer experience associates, and marketers come together to create a better way to work. Our products and services help businesses to be more productive, flexible, and scalable. Together, we can change the way the world works!