Senior Backend Developer

Overview

Guidepoint's Engineering team thrives on delivering innovative technology solutions that accelerate revenue growth, reduce costs, and increase efficiency and productivity. As Guidepoint achieves its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to create new products and improve existing platforms to optimize the seamless delivery of our services.

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will help us reimagine the web experience of our flagship products, using the latest technologies and tooling. As an early member of a new team, your contributions will have a profound influence. This position is perfect for someone who loves a challenge and has come from a fast-growing company.

What You'll Do:

1. Development
• Build and maintain robust cloud-native APIs, services, and integrations.
• Utilize Auth0 and API Gateway to authenticate and authorize HTTP requests.
• Collaborate with front-end developers, data engineers, and dev-ops engineers.
• Optimize and troubleshoot applications for performance, reliability, and scalability.
2. Performance
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks to ensure optimal speed and responsiveness of web applications.
• Implement and advocate for best practices in performance optimization.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers on solutions for telemetry and observability.
3. Coding and Programming
• Rapidly iterate on features – writing elegant, reliable, and maintainable code.
• Stay updated on the latest AWS cloud technologies and incorporate them into the development process.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Engage with engineering and clients to resolve technical issues.
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to a collaborative and innovative team culture.

Required Technical Qualifications:

• 3+ years of relevant experience in building and maintaining production backend web solutions
• Expertise with AWS be backend technologies, patterns, and practices –with Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM
• Fluent in high language, Primary as JavaScript and secondary as Python
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code – CDK, Terraform
• Expertise in creating RESTful backend services.
• Expertise with Agile SDLC practices
• Practical knowledge of cross-browser development and browser compatibility
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Meticulous, organized, proactive, and critical thinker, with a high level of attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Are passionate about writing high-quality code
• Enjoy refactoring and leaving code in a better place than when you found it
• Want to make a huge impact on a brand-new, innovative platform
• Are an excellent communicator
• Take pride in ownership and driving projects to completion
• Are passionate about building products
• Are great at learning something new
• Function independently with minimal oversight but also on a team
• You want to work on a new codebase with a fresh stack

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Employee medical coverage
• Central office location
• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions
• Casual work environment