The Sr. Software Engineer (backend) will work in our development team to write usable, scalable backend APIs to support our web and mobile applications. This person will also compliment a team of frontend developers, quality assurance, designers and product managers. The ideal candidate is an individual who thrives on new challenges, possesses a strong web backend development background.

• Analyze product requirements and specifications to create, communicate, and implement backend designs and implementations
• Design, develop, and support high-traffic, high-availability web services and applications
• Create and enhance application frameworks and modularity
• Collaborate with the frontend development, quality assurance, integration, production, and product management teams through the full software development lifecycle
• Drive, create, and enhance the development processes used by the team
• Provide technical mentorship to the other software engineers

• Minimum 4 year experience in software development with solid hands-on experience in web/mobile programming
• Extensive experience with SQL (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.)
• Agile development process experience; including unit testing, story creation, continuous integration, and close collaboration with product management and quality assurance
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web applications
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills in English
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science

• Experience with PHP and Java
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated attitude and aptitude for an energetic startup environment
• Overseas education and/or working experience is a BIG plus