Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

 As a Localize engineer, you’ll be responsible for the infrastructure, APIs, and databases that power Localize’s core product. You will lead the development of a scalable and performant back-end platform. We’re looking for a strong engineer with at least six years of experience who works well on a small team and is excited about impacting and improving customers' experiences.


 



 What You’ll Do:


 



 
Optimize, design and maintain document (NoSQL) databases
 
Build and update APIs that power our front-end
 
Be actively involved in architecture decisions
 
Contribute code, both front-end and back-end, as needed to help deploy amazing features
 
Collaborate daily with other remote engineers, product and customer-facing teams
 
Participate in peer code reviews
 
Help keep our product running smoothly
 
Learn new technologies, architectures and methods
 
Suggest improvements for our product, processes and technology
 
Assist in maintaining scalable, performant infrastructure


 



 Our Core Stack: Experience with these specific technologies a plus, but not strictly required


 



 
JavaScript: React/Redux on Front End, Node/Express (REST APIs) on the Back End plus vanilla JavaScript in our SDK
 
Datastores: MongoDB (Mongoose.js ODM), Redis, S3
 
Infrastructure: AWS: Elastic Beanstalk, EC2, Elasticache, Cloudfront, Cloudflare
 
Tooling: Github, Jira, CircleCI, Jest, and many more