Backend Engineer at Novo

About the Role:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software and new user-facing features across Novo’s products and services
• Drive technical decisions on a multi-functional, Agile team alongside product management, product design, and engineering
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability and analyze feedback from customers and internal teams to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
• Champion a passion for engineering best practices such as code quality, linting, and testing
• Ensure our software is reliable, extensible, maintainable, debuggable, secure, well-tested and performs well under load
• Mentor junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing
• Stay engaged with latest technologies and evaluate strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date

Requirements for the Role:

• 2-4 years experience in a highly technical role at hyper-growth startup or fast-paced company
• Extensive background designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and improving software
• Demonstrable experience architecting scalable and cost effective solutions to ensure and support the customer growth
• Experience mentoring junior engineers in all aspects of planning, development and testing
• Demonstrated ability to translate business goals and initiatives into technical requirements
• Strong understanding of system design and architecture.
• Interest in engaging with latest technologies and evaluating strategies to keep the Novo technology stack up to date
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams effectively.
• Work across our tech stack which includes:
• Node.js and Go for our application code
• React for our frontend code
• GraphQL for communication between systems
• Docker for running our services
• PostgreSQL for persistent data storage