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Software Engineer, Back-End

Software Engineers are an essential part of Battlefy's Product Team. Working closely with designers and product managers, we implement and maintain the user interface and production systems. Software Engineers that focus on back-end partake in server-side software development, maintaining existing micro-services, and scaling 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-informed decisions
• An expert at communicating, knowing exactly how to collaborate with sales, marketing, user experience, product managers and other engineers
• Constantly curious, always looking to learn and increase your knowledge

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 great engineering patterns to playing video games and competing in esports tournaments. You embody our values of one team, drive and sportsmanship

Your Experience

• At least 2 years of experience building and maintaining software for paying customers
• At least 1 year of experience working remotely
• You have built systems on public cloud providers such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• You have worked in a fast growth environment where your pace and hustle was key to getting the right things done
• You know what technical debt is -- you're pragmatic and know when to make trade-offs between architectural purity and reality
• 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 either know or are able to demonstrate that you can master the following:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Terraform
• Jenkins
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Javascript (ES6) and NodeJS
• MongoDB, Postgresql, Redis, Elastic Search

Bonus Points if you…

• Have worked in startup environments
• Have experience in organizing or competing in esports tournaments
• Write blog posts
• Ran your own venture (even if it failed)
• Have open source contributions

Benefits

• Stock
• Competitive salary
• Paid time off
• Company hardware
• Much more...