Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Title: Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Location: This is a Remote opportunity can work from Canada, USA or UK

Duration: Permanent

How to apply: Include resume as MS Word attachment

SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER (REMOTE)

As a Senior Backend Web Developer on the Browser Experience team, you will be tasked with helping to implement new features, resolve issues, and help to push the extension further.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

• Help to plan, develop, and ship new features with your teammates
• Work independently based on published design and planning specifications
• Critique others’ work and offer constructive suggestions
• Ask and answer questions about your feature from within and outside of the team
• Help diagnose bug reports and help to find resolutions
• What you can expect by month 6:
• Architect the codebase for your assigned features
• Foresee issues with APIs before implementation as they pertain to your feature
• Implement from design specifications and provide feedback where necessary
• Assist others when they experience development difficulties
• Lead the development of new features with the help of your teammates
• Continue to upkeep the codebase and ensure that it’s easy to continue building the best web experience

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU

• A solid understanding of Web technologies like TypeScript
• An understanding of cross-browser compatibility and how to work around the quirks of different browsers
• Experience with Rust is a plus!
• Excitement to tackle new challenges and propose solutions to problems at hand
• Comfortable working with a team to develop new features, from proof of concept to shipping product
• The ability to manage your schedule and deliver projects on time while working remotely
• What you can expect in your first month:
• Meet and get to know your team and how it fits within the rest of the organization
• Become familiar with the tools and processes that uses
• Acquire an advanced understanding of the architecture and how it keeps user data safe and secure
• Investigate and solve minor issues to learn the applications’ architecture
• Become familiar with the codebase and future goals of the product
• Participate in planning and feature development
• Review other developers code, ensuring it’s understandable and aligns with our standards