Senior Backend Developer

Dotlinkers IT recruitment; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Dotlinkers IT recruitment is seeking a Senior Backend Developer to join a cross-functional team in a fully remote capacity. You will design high-performing backend systems and lead the software development lifecycle. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, particularly in large-scale applications.

The position offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for mentorship and career growth. You will be expected to communicate effectively across teams, ensuring high-quality deliveries and ongoing improvements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 1-2 years in senior positions.
• Experience with distributed web applications and RESTful services.
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints.
• Drive/Lead the full lifecycle of software development.
• Mentor others on best practices.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed web applications

Database modeling

RESTful services

Data structures and algorithms

Job description

Job Overview

Position: Senior Backend Developer

Form of Employment: contract of employment

Place of Work: 100% remote

Core Working Hours: 16:00–20:00 CET (core hours, flexibility for remaining hours)

Our client combines a buyer database of over 270M contacts and powerful sales engagement and automation tools in one, easy‑to‑use platform. Trusted by over 160,000 companies, it has more than one million users globally. By helping sales professionals find their ideal buyers and intelligently automate outreach, our client helps go‑to‑market teams sell anything.

Role Description

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross‑functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You'll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands‑on mentorship, and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You love both learning and teaching. In this role, you will be interfacing with design, front‑end, analytics, as well as teams outside of Engineering. You enjoy working cross‑functionally to solve hard problems and make an impact. You strive for quality and are obsessed with improving quality, automation, and squashing any bugs that sneak through. You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
• Gather product requirements and write design docs to satisfy product needs
• Drive/Lead the full lifecycle of software development: product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance
• Mentor others on best practices and effectively share knowledge
• Effectively communicate development progress to product lead, engineering manager, and other stakeholders
• Introduce new technologies and new ideas as required
• Work effectively as part of a large global team
• Attend and engage in scrum ceremony meetings, team parties, and manager 1:1s
• Provide feedback to co‑workers in written and verbal form and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 1-2 years in senior positions, developing large‑scale applications
• Experience developing distributed web applications
• Code is comprehensible, well‑structured, highly performant
• Experience with database modeling (SQL or NoSQL both OK)
• Experience with using and designing RESTful services
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object‑oriented design

Competencies

• Proactively acts without being told what to do. Able to identify areas of improvement and drive best practices to deliver high‑quality, performant, and scalable solutions
• Develops services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place
• Able to up‑level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team
• Able to deal with ambiguity
• Ownership of projects from start to finish. Just because the project has been deployed doesn’t mean it’s done
• Organized and able to effectively plan and break large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver
• Let others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints
• A creative and innovative problem solver with previous experience working in an agile, startup environment
• Confident in owning your role and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users