Back End Developer

Agreement type: full-time employee, 40 hours per week, hired directly by the client.

Location of the engineer: Remote 100%. Candidates can be based anywhere in the U.S., but a Boston, MA, or East Coast location is preferred for collaboration.

Our company description

Mission is a platform for hiring, vetting, and managing software development talent. It enables our clients to connect with the world’s best talent to build mission-critical software products.

About the client

A fully remote company transforming digital advertising by helping brands connect with new consumers through performance-driven marketing. Profitable, fast-growing, and trusted by leading brands across ecommerce, entertainment, travel, and consumer goods, this organization offers a unique opportunity to join a high-growth team at a pivotal stage of expansion.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own projects end to end, write clean and reliable code, and play a key role in scaling our AWS infrastructure. This is a high impact role with direct visibility into how your work drives growth.

To succeed, you must be data driven, with a passion for continuously measuring and improving customer experience, and a natural focus on AWS, scalability, and performance.

What You’ll Do

• Own your assigned development projects from start to finish
• Collaborate with our Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance and evolve our AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.)
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitor system health
• Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack
• Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues, and proactively identify areas for improvement
• Write clean, tested, maintainable code—and help others do the same through code reviews

What You Bring

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a Backend / Infrastructure Software Engineer
• Proficient in Ruby on Rails
• Experience with SQL databases
• Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting
• Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and Linux environments
• Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns
• Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Able to persevere through engineering challenges: willingness to embrace and not shy away from a problem you haven’t seen before
• Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving
• Passion for backend and infrastructure development
• Self-motivation, grit, & tenacity
• Ownership Mindset: Proactive and self-driven with a strong sense of initiative, consistently taking responsibility, and exceeds expectations

Team Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• PostgreSQL
• RSpec
• JavaScript
• HTML5
• Vue.js
• Redis

Preferred Skills

• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience performance tuning and scaling systems with high volumes of user traffic
• Experience with Apache Spark
• Familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL

What you get

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical/Dental/Vision), and we offer all full-time employees the potential to hold company equity
• Flexible remote work
• Unlimited Responsible PTO
• Great opportunity to join a growing, cash-flow-positive company while having a direct impact on revenue, growth, scale, and future success
• $130-$200k per year depending on experience