Venture-backed Miami based tech startup seeking an experienced Backend Developer. GoTu is a deep work platform that connects licensed dental professionals with dental offices in need of temporary & full time help through an on-demand web and mobile platform (think Uber for staffing).
Working with GoTu means you will be working alongside committed fellow engineers who know their work is critical to the company’s success. We are a people-first company that actively seeks your input to make you more successful in your role! We like to have fun with our work and encourage you to get to know the people you work with. We have a motto – Hard work doesn’t have to be serious!
Responsibilities include:
- Actively cooperate with your Scrum team consisting of Fullstack/Backend Engineers, QA, Product Designer and a Product Manager (sometimes Android/iOS Engineers) in the US
- Work with designers, product managers, and engineers to design impactful products from design, development, testing, and deployment of the solution specifically backend
- Help frontend developers in coding and troubleshooting
- Design robust APIs to support mobile and web applications
- Produce high-quality code that raises the bar for all engineering team members
- Review and improve web applications for performance and scalability
- Perform quality assurance/debugging procedures to provide a secure and functional delivery
- Implement testing protocols for managing successful deployments across development, staging, and production environments
- Research novel solutions to nuanced and often unchartered engineering challenges
- Analyze and resolve technical and application issues
- Recommend system solutions by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchasing alternatives as well as sharing your opinion and ideas during Scrum Events, Tech meetings, or simply in Slack channels
Qualifications:
– 3-5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages
– Must be available on weekdays for meetings 9 AM – 11 AM Eastern American time;
– 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture
– Solid programming skills in JavaScript
– Deep understanding of relational database systems, specifically MySQL and Postgres
– Understanding NoSQL Datastores such as ElasticSearch, and MongoDB is a plus
– Experience building scalable, performant, and modular solutions
– Understanding of modern cloud technologies such as AWS or Google Cloud
– Experience with microservices and service-oriented architecture
What you’ll do
– Work in an exciting and high-growth startup
– Research novel solutions to nuanced and often unchartered engineering challenges
– Work with designers, product managers, and engineers to design impactful products
– Perform and uphold code best practices.
– Produce high-quality code that raises the bar for all engineering team members
– Improve scalable distributed systems on the cloud
– Improve web applications for performance and scalability
– Perform quality assurance/debugging procedures to provide a secure and functional delivery
– Implement testing protocols for managing successful deployments across development, staging, and production environments
– Recommend system solutions by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchasing alternatives
We are excited to meet you!
