Back-end Principal Engineer at Crossover for Work

Description

• Are you the go-to backend engineering leader on your team? Are you passionate about developing simple solutions and high-quality products using cloud services? Do you want to be the owner and gatekeeper of a fast-growing, top-notch codebase? If so, then this job is for you. 
• Forget about jobs that devalue your skills by dismissing the importance of high-quality, feature-complete backend code. In this role, you will learn and grow 10x faster than in other positions in the industry that limit your knowledge to a single product. You will rotate across products to deliver applications, communicate with important project stakeholders, and continuously build your skills.
• We use innovative technologies and the latest serverless cloud patterns, such as AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, AWS Amplify, AppSync, Cognito, and more. You will grow new cloud skills in these technologies with our training program that offers learning opportunities in platforms such as AWS Trainings and Certifications and LinkedIn Learning. Your future colleagues are among 1% of the world’s greatest talent and will motivate you to apply your expertise in impactful ways that reach hundreds of products. If you are ready to experience more while refining and enhancing your skills, hit the apply button. 

What you will be doing

• Developing the most complex features and fixing the toughest bugs on the backend codebase of our cloud-based products
• Making heavy use of AWS and GCP serverless patterns to provide the simplest, lowest cost-of-ownership solution
• Establishing and maintaining a high level of codebase quality through well-written, high-coverage unit and integration tests
• Being the gatekeeper on the entire backend codebase by reviewing your team members’ work and providing insightful coaching to help them reach your level of mastery and code-simplicity

What you will NOT be doing

• Small bug-fixes or features on outdated monolithic codebases
• Tedious infrastructure work to enable poorly written products to continue running
• People management or getting stuck on long meetings discussing roadmaps, product plans, and priorities

Key Responsibilities

• Creating high-quality, simple, flexible code that meets the technical specification (both correct, and complete)
• Developing code across a large number of products and industries instead of being siloed on a single product for years
• Communicating with important project stakeholders to deeply understand product use-cases
• Reviewing all code changes and holding them up to the highest quality standards

Candidate Requirements

• A university degree that included an in-depth study of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, computer architecture, and software engineering
• At least 5 years of backend software development experience in which you wrote object-oriented code
• A role in your career where you were the lead engineer on a product or component where you were responsible for the quality of other developers' code