A well-funded, early stage Cyber Security startup is looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a mentor to fellow Engineers, sharing knowledge and contributing to the team's continued growth and improvement
- Keep current with technology and developments
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications
- Responsible for the evaluation and development of Instnt's initial engineering process
- Design, code, and troubleshoot new features, while debugging as necessary
- Work closely with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
- Write clean code to develop functional web applications
- Manage tools and processes for handling analytics data and metrics that measure and evaluate quality of user experience
- Other duties as needed or required.
Requirements:
- BS in computer science or related field (master's degree a strong plus)
- Strong understanding of algorithms and distributed systems
- Strong experience with Golang/Rust
- Desire to work in an early-stage company and build a strong team culture
- Experience with Kafka
- Strong experience working on systems built with AWS components such as Kinesis, databases, Lambda Functions, etc
- Resourceful
- Capable of prioritizing work and creating product & sprint schedules.
