• You have experience or a strong interest in writing applications in Node.js
• You have experience implementing highly-available distributed systems/microservices
• You have experience building scalable backend APIs
• You have experience working with relational databases, Postgres preferred
• You strongly believe in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
• You have attention to detail and a passion for correctness
• You are comfortable learning new technologies and systems
• You have strong interpersonal and communication skills with a bias towards action

Desirable

• Design, implement or improve features in a variety of backend systems including our REST APIs, microservices, data ingestion and processing systems, and distributed task/job processing systems
• Write and maintain scalable, performant code that can be shared across platforms
• Meaningfully contribute to the product and core backend systems by suggesting and executing improvements
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Practice test-driven development
• Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack