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Software Engineer - Backend

💰 $50,000 - $100,000 🌍 United States of America 📅 07/05/2023

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Job Description

##### Job Description :

We're looking for a talented Software Engineer to help create the APIs and
services that will power the initial experience for Spill. When hired, you’ll
collaborate with an experienced team that has scaled some of the largest most
complex systems in the world.

##### **What you’ll do**

We're looking for a Software Engineer with experience designing, building, and
maintaining high-scale distributed systems. You’ll play a key role in
architectural decisions for current and future features as well as
establishing the culture and craft of engineering at Spill.

##### **Responsibilities**

* Addressing and solving complex problems at both an application and system level
* Collaborating effectively with teammates, technical partners, and the open source community
* Owning and managing all the phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support) and guide critical decisions correctly that fully consider software best practices, Spill's architecture, and customer requirements
* Designing, building, deploying, and maintaining microservices optimized for high-availability, throughput, fault tolerance, & performance.
* Challenging architectural choices we make in building platforms or products/services at Spill. Ensure technical decision making aligns with our brand ethos of ease of use and high developer productivity.
* Teaching and mentoring other engineers to level up our collective capabilities and knowledge
* Working in a culture of feedback, inclusion and engineering excellence

##### **Minimum requirements**

* 3+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
* Experience developing, maintaining and debugging distributed systems built with open source tools
* Experience developing and scaling GraphQL based APIs and microservices in Node, Python, or Go and a willingness to learn
* Experience deploying and operating large scale workloads on a public cloud(AWS preferred, Google, or Azure)
* Expertise in developing and debugging across a diverse service stack including storage and data solutions
* Demonstrated track record of improving software quality with stable deploys

##### **Benefits we offer**

**Competitive salaries** \- We know you're in high demand, so we aim to be in
the top 10% of salaries based on what you'd make as a Silicon Valley engineer
regardless of where you reside.

**Remote work** \- We are a remote first company so work wherever you want.
Also, we supply whatever hardware and software you need to do your job from
home.

**Health, dental, & vision** \- Spill offers PPO and HMO plans for you, your
family, or domestic partner. We pay 75% and you pay 25>#/p###

**Unlimited PTO** \- We know you'll love working at Spill so much that you'll
want to stay heads down every day and night but seriously we want you to take
the time you need to bring your best self to work.

**Paid parental leave** \- When you welcome a new baby, Spill encourages you
to take up to 16 weeks leave as primary or secondary caretaker at 100% paid
salary.