Back End Software Engineer

DIEMlife

Back End Software Engineer
Full-time contract positions available starting January 2021
Application Deadline: January 21, 2021
Location: Syracuse, NY or Rochester, NY

Do you live, breathe, and dare we say, dream of improving the world by writing code?
Are you a trailblazing codesmith who seeks to power narratives of passion and triumph?
Do you feel most alive when finding innovative solutions to technical challenges?

If you answered YES to these questions, consider becoming DIEMlife’s next Back End Software Engineer.

What is DIEMlife?

We help organizations and individuals – from community to corporate to college members – curate and customize their events, fundraisers, and initiatives all in one place. Our Quest®-builder creates content that can be plugged into social media channels and legacy systems like email and websites. But, more importantly, beyond our enabling technology, it’s the tenacious, talented people out there who, through their individual or collective Quest®, have impacted and inspired others.

Our team is made up of inspiring individuals with incredible ambitions. Curious? Here’s more info:

This is what you’ll do:

By building the future of community achievement, you’ll help solve problems that are fundamental to the business and how it grows.

From the backend of the frontend (e.g. Angular) to HTML/CSS and NativeScript, we expect you to fully represent users' needs through close partnership with product, design, and user research team members building DIEMlife.
Create software that resonates with our customers. Own the backend and ensure that what you write is universally high quality. You are also expected to support four fellow engineers through a daily practice of mentorship and advancement of internal tools and processes.

Requirements:

BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent technical experience

2+ years of back end software engineering and/or work-related experience

Previous success developing and shipping web and mobile applications with a user-focused mindset

Strong experience working with the Play! Framework which serves as our microservices based backend

Good experience with Spring Boot with knowledge of generating and storing user sessions, tokens for authentication

Write clean, commented code to meet user needs and business requirements

Follows best practices for database design, table relationships, indexes, keys in MySQL database

Familiarity with Linux shell and scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python)

Knowledge of clustered cache such as Redis and Memcache a major plus

Familiar with Agile/Scrum and git workflow with branches, merges and pull requests

Communicate clearly and efficiently over email, slack, video conference and in person when required, typically once or twice a week.

*Interested? *

Email [email protected] no later than January 21, 2021 with your CV and include a concise cover letter that describes your interest in this position and covers the following:

1. Your story -- what brought you where you are, and why?
2. Describe your work experience and why that makes you great for the position?
   
3. Your interest in tackling unconventional assignments

In short, if the idea of working with DIEMlife gets you pumped, say why. We will select the applicants with the best fit for interviews and regret that we cannot reply to all who apply. Early applicants will be given priority.