Backend Engineer

Your Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate within a cross-functional product team and with other teams to solve customer problems by delivering high-quality product functionality and operational support.
• Participate in all phases of the software engineering lifecycle, including ideation, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing operation.
• Develop high-quality, maintainable code in accordance with established best practices and clean code principles.
• Proactively advocate for and contribute to improvements in product quality, security, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with engineers and other team members across multiple layers of the infrastructure to design, implement, and launch new features.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand, clarify, and help shape their requirements, providing technical guidance and recommendations where appropriate.

Required Key Competencies and Qualifications

• Profound expertise in GitHub Actions and GitHub Workflows, as well as strong programming skills in TypeScript and Bash.
• Demonstrated passion for automating, scaling, and optimizing test and deployment processes, including hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong commitment to implementing state-of-the-art DevOps practices within CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
• Ability and willingness to consult and collaborate with cross-functional teams on software delivery pipelines, and to share best practices in modern software delivery.
• Enjoyment of solving complex technical and business challenges in a collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• Strong motivation for continuous learning and professional development, with a desire to contribute to meaningful improvements in digital products and platforms.
• Interest in data processing, analysis, and the calculation and interpretation of relevant metrics.
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for exploring, adopting, and applying new technologies and industry trends.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.

Strongly Preferred

• Hands-on experience with GitHub, including GitHub Workflows, Actions, Apps, and self-hosted runners.
• Solid practical knowledge of containerization and orchestration technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with a focus on GKE, Cloud Run Functions, and BigQuery.
• Familiarity with GitHub Enterprise Cloud administration and management.
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and TypeScript.
• Experience creating, maintaining, and deploying Helm charts.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing and maintaining dashboards in Datadog.
• Knowledge of maintaining Jenkins shared libraries, including Groovy scripting.