Senior Backend Engineer

22 Nov 2024

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Job Summary/Company:

A Sparks Group Partner is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their team. They have built a collaborative online learning platform that is used by Fortune 500 companies, universities, training firms, and foundations. You will be part of a talented mission-driven team to build great products that empower and impact lives. This position is 100% remote. If you are interested in learning more about Sparks Group and the opportunity, please submit your resume today.

Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with client-side developers in web and mobile development to design new product features/concepts
  • Develop RESTful JSON APIs that will serve the company's app
  • Design backend data models, caching scheme, background processing/queuing, reporting, notifications/real-time updates
  • Work with team to choose the right design patterns, data model definitions, and algorithms for reliability of backend systems
  • Design fault-tolerant integrations into systems of interest
  • Investigate performance challenges and optimize backend APIs/design to ensure technology performance
  • Investigate technology defects and propose solutions to reported issues

Qualifications/Background Profile:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience working as a backend developer in an API team or web development capacity
  • 3+ years of experience writing SQL queries using object relational data interfaces
  • 3+ years of Ruby on Rails experience
  • 3+ years of experience designing software applications: data models, abstractions

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