What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Backend position at NewsBreak?
About the Role
As a backend engineer, you’ll be instrumental in establishing and maintaining the system infrastructure that drives the success of our billion-dollar business, ensuring its stability, scalability and high performance. Your work will boost the success of various projects and contribute to our continued growth and success.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain functional and stable server applications to meet our company’s needs.
- Gather and address technical and design requirements.
- Write clean code to develop functional backend service.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications.
- Perform UI tests to optimize performance.
- Manage cutting-edge technologies to improve legacy applications.
- Collaborate with product team, data team, business team and to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
Requirements
- Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or relevant field with minimum 3 years of experience as a Back-end developer.
- In-depth understanding of the entire web application process (design, development, and deployment).
- Hands-on experience with programming languages Golang, Java, and Python.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and time management skills.
- Teamwork skills with a humble, can-do attitude.
Benefits
We offer competitive benefits package:
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
- Top-tier 401(K) plan with company matching
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- FSA and commuter benefits programs
- Team activity budget
Salary : $165,000 - $285,000
