Backend Engineer at YouNow in Remote

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Engineering - Includes product, design, clients, QA and backend team throughout planning, implementation, testing, deployment
• Develop and maintain application business logic to support three client platforms - iOS, Android and web
• Contribute to architectural, design, and process decisions developing features for YouNow, and improving the AWS infrastructure powering those features
• Provide time estimates for stories that are executed during 2-week sprint cycles
• Think independently and proactively challenge project assumptions
• Ensure quality assurance by testing your own work, and collaborating with internal QA team before and after release
• Handle code deployments in both dev and production environments
• Monitor AWS performance metrics, error logs and be on call for PagerDuty alerts
• Be responsive and jump on critical issues and bugs as they arise
• Follow best practices and process as established by the engineering team and company

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred
• English fluency
• 3+ years of experience as a backend developer
• Experience developing applications for a large user base
• Dev ops or systems experience
• Skilled in writing applications in scripting languages, preferably PHP
• Proficient in understanding SQL scripts, writing SQL queries, MySQL and Redshift (PostgreSQL)
• Experience with various AWS Services (Redis, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redshift, EC2)
• Up to date understanding of best practices regarding system security measures