Backend Engineer

Drivetrain; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Drivetrain is seeking a Backend Engineer to join our remote-first team. You’ll work on backend application development, algorithms, system design, and production services using a cutting-edge stack.

As an early team member, you’ll help shape engineering practices and culture while tackling complex data and distributed systems challenges, with Java, Spring, Hibernate, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and AWS.

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with distributed systems is a plus.
• Minimum 3 years of software engineering experience.
• Experience with the listed tech stack is helpful but not required.
• Strong communication and proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Design abstractions to minimise custom code across services.
• Work on backend development, algorithms, and production services.
• Review code and contribute to best practices.
• Contribute to documentation and internal knowledge base.
• Shape engineering practices and company culture.

Skills

Algorithms

Data structures

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Communication skills

Tools

Java

Spring

Hibernate

Redis

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

BigQuery

AWS

Job description

Drivetrain is on a mission to empower businesses to make better decisions. Our financial planning & decision-making platform helps companies scale and achieve their targets predictably.

Drivetrain is a remote-first company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2021 by a couple of ex-Googlers, Drivetrain is a fast-growing company on a trajectory for success with backing from leading venture capital firms.

Drivetrain provides a great culture for its employees to thrive in and be happy.

Remote-friendly: Drivetrain brings together the best and the brightest, no matter where they are and provides them a great degree of autonomy. We trust our people.

Open & transparent: We know that when our creators have access to all the information they need, their best work will emerge.

Idea-friendly: We provide an environment to explore new ideas, to take risks, to make mistakes, and to learn, so you can succeed. Anyone in the company can come up with great ideas and become a catalyst for positive change. We let the best ideas win.

Customer-centric: We follow a product-led growth strategy, continuously learning from our customers and collaborating to build the amazing software that Drivetrain is.

About the role

Drivetrain is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team. The role involves working on challenging problems in backend application development, algorithms, system design, and serving in production.

What you’ll be doing

The underlying technical problems are challenging - how do you design abstractions that minimise custom code, as every business is a little different; how do you deal with data scattered across multiple systems and make sense of a large number of moving parts.

You get to work on a cutting edge stack consisting of Java, Spring, Hibernate, Redis, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and AWS.

Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development and proposed solutions.

Take accountability for the quality, total cost of ownership, maintainability and security of the component developed.Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).

Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.

Seek out opportunities for innovation that can be shared between multiple teams that have a willingness to experiment as well as the courage to boldly confront problems of a large complexity and scope.

As an early team member, you’ll help shape our company culture, engineering practices, and the product.

Requirements

A great problem solver and is passionate about the craft of building software.

Has a deep understanding of algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

Has at least 3 years of experience in software engineering.

Experience with the above-mentioned stack would be helpful but is not necessary.

Is aspirational, self-driven, and proactive.

Has excellent communication skills.