https://totaltech.me/

” The Job Description”

Be a key stakeholder of API services, both internal and external across a wide range of features.
Own and maintain documentation for all externally facing APIs .
Experiment, prototype, measure, and make data-driven analysis of everything you build.
Implement web-services, business-logic, APIs product.
Define code architecture decisions to support a high-performance and scalable product with a minimal footprint.
Participate in the technical design process, contributing towards effective distributed systems.
Make an impact in engineering standards, tooling, and process.

Requirements:

Have passion and motivation for well structured backend services.
Have experience with nix based execution environments.
Value code quality, testability and iterative development methodology.
Like to move fast in a startup environment.
Have a familiarity with cloud environments, infrastructure as code and provisioning for the code that you write.
Enjoy building distributed/scalable backend infrastructure with a microservices-first design.
Are extremely comfortable working in multi-threaded applications.
Love to demonstrate, and incrementally build confidence in all the pieces that you develop.
Effectively own initiatives, keeping all stakeholders in the loop from a multitude of disciplines (QA, Product, FrontEnd, Infrastructure, Sales, etc.).
Drive projects end-to-end to deliver business impact and value.
Deeply care about resource frugality and performance.

Nice To Haves:

A good understanding of security principals (Walled garden, JWTs, salting, Shamirs, RSA, etc.).
Have a good understanding of Kubernetes, Docker and CI/CD systems.
Experience with GCP deployments and pipelines management.
Knowledge of Golang, Python, Typescript, and Javascript.
Knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or NestJS.
Worked with with NATS, and other such message queues
Multiple communication protocols in your pocket, ideally the connect protocol (gRPC, REST, MCP, WebSockets, etc.).
Have worked in multiple static and dynamic languages.
Have a deep sense of appreciation for test-driven methodology.

Backend Engineer