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;
- In collaboration with the Chief Product Officer, lead Instnt’s technology strategy;
- 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 Python;
- Desire to work in an early-stage company and build a strong team culture;
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc.);
- 5+ years of experience working with Python in a professional environment;
- Able to provision infrastructure components on AWS and document these processes;
- 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.
