Job description

Job description

This role will join the team as a general backend engineer with some frontend work as we develop internal tools to capture and visualize various metrics to determine the health of our products. You will leverage your critical thinking skills to analyze data and present your findings to key organizational members to facilitate decision-making.

The ideal candidate will utilize their engineering expertise to help build solutions to novel problems in software development, both front-end and back-end; data engineering; and anomaly detection.

Job Responsibilities:

• Research, design, and implement operational monitoring instruments and enhancements including early failure detection using machine learning metrics
• Perform routine operations to migrate data in order to distribute usage of our resources more evenly across clients and infrastructure
• Develop tools and web applications to support business new and existing business functions
• Analyze application logs and metrics to determine service availability and uptime while developing automation
• Interface with stakeholders to keep them informed of availability trends associated with business critical functions
• Maintain existing synthetic monitoring to ensure parity as new features are developed

Typical Qualifications:

• 4-7 years of software engineering experience, mostly in backend development.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills
• In-depth experience in at least one programming language commonly used for analysis, data engineering, or infrastructure automation tasks (Python, JavaScript, Perl, R, Java/Scala, C/C++, etc.)
• Willingness to build with new/unfamiliar languages with guidance, as appropriate for each individual project/implementation
• Ability to be flexible and to work independently as business and environment demands evolve
• Experience with application performance measurement and troubleshooting across the application stack and its environments (Windows, Linux, Oracle, AWS, etc.)
• Working familiarity with a variety of backends, including other REST endpoints, databases, etc.