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Senior Backend Engineer

Software Engineers are an essential part of Battlefy's Product Team. Working closely with designers and product managers, we implement and maintain production systems.

We value passion and drive but we also believe that diversity is the key to success for every high growth technology startup. We welcome people from all walks of life.

Requirements

You Are

• A passionate, entrepreneurial-spirited technologist that owns delivery from concept through to completion
• A relentless advocate for engineering excellence, dedicated to coaching and mentoring others
• A product thinker, who balances user pains and business needs while being pragmatic in making data driven decisions
• An expert at communicating, knowing exactly how to collaborate with sales, marketing, UX, product managers and other engineers
• Constantly curious, always looking to learn and increase your knowledge
• Against micromanagement, endless meetings and imposed unrealistic timelines

You Will

• Engineer reliable and maintainable software to meet the application and infrastructure needs of the Battlefy platform
• Wear many hats working across Engineering, DevOps and Quality Assurance
• Continually set personal and professional goals and do everything in your power to surpass them
• Grow the Battlefy culture, from posting to Slack about good engineering patterns to playing video games and competing in esports tournaments. You embody our values of one team, drive and sportsmanship

Your Experience

• You have shipped scalable SaaS products that you are incredibly proud of
• You have worked in a fast growth environment where your pace and hustle was key to getting the right things done
• You are a veteran of scaling software, infrastructure and processes to support high concurrency traffic patterns
• You know what technical debt is -- you are pragmatic and know when to make trade-offs between architectural purity and reality
• You either know or are able to demonstrate that you can master the following:

• Javascript (ES6) and Node.js
• React, Angular or similar modern frontend libraries/frameworks
• JavaScript testing frameworks
• MongoDB, Postgresql, Redis
• Amazon Web Services
• You are experienced in modern delivery practices and tools, be it running a daily scrum, using Kanban boards as information radiators or rapidly iterating to achieve a MVP
• You have at least 5 years engineering experience in software product companies. For at least 2 of these years you were in a role similar to this one

Bonus Points if you…

• Understand competitive sports
• Write blog posts
• Do tech talks at local Vancouver events
• Ran your own venture (even if it failed)
• Have open source contributions

Benefits

What you’ll get

• Stock
• Competitive salaries
• Paid time off
• Company hardware
• Company sponsored team-building events including tech talks, happy hours, board game nights, archery tag, recreational volleyball and basketball, and in-house Super Smash Bros tournaments
• Much more...