Lead Software Engineer, Backend

Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that enables organizations to continuously improve their operational maturity and reduce developer friction. The Lead Software Engineer, Backend will design, implement, and maintain core backend systems while collaborating with product and support engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, and efficient backend systems and services that meet enterprise requirements
• Work alongside other engineers to build new features and enhance existing ones
• Optimize and improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of existing backend systems
• Participate in operating our systems in production, including Incident Response on a rotational basis
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that adheres to best practices
• Partner closely with engineering, product, leadership, sales, and our customers to better understand design requests and user experiences
• Continually improve existing planning, development, deployment processes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 7+ years of experience building backend applications using any modern programming language
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud computing platforms
• Experience with modern data storage solutions, such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc
• Knowledge of current standard methodologies and to try, learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages
• Solid fundamental skills in data structures, algorithms, and web development best practices
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers