Senior Software Engineer (Backend) (Remote)

Fieldmaterials; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A startup in the construction tech field seeks a Backend Engineer to develop high-performance microservices and APIs. This role involves building scalable systems that drive significant economic impact, ideal for candidates with 2-5+ years of experience in languages like Go or Java. The company offers excellent benefits, including equity awards, flexible time off, and regular team retreats.

Benefits

Flexible time off

Equity awards

Gym reimbursement

Annual personal development fund

New work laptop

Work headphones reimbursement

Regular offsites at fun locations

Qualifications

• 2-5+ years of production level experience in Go, Java, Scala, or C++.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with data serialization protocols (protobufs).

Responsibilities

• Building high-performance micro-services and APIs.
• Creating scalable and performant production systems.
• Iterating on product design based on customer feedback.

Skills

Scalability

System design

Low latency systems

FinTech interest

Education

BS in Computer Science or related technical field

Tools

SQL databases

Microservices

Distributed systems

Kafka

GraphQL

Job description

We are a young startup with a bold vision to become the commerce and financial technology backbone of construction - one of the world’s largest industries. Founded by serial entrepreneurs with exits to Fortune 500 companies (including Paypal), Field Materials has partnered with prominent VC funds in Silicon Valley to build a world class team with a mission to digitize and democratize construction material purchasing. This is a unique opportunity to join at the ground level an industry transforming company.

Our company is the people we hire. We aspire to build a team of smart, high-caliber players that inspire each other to excel yet are not afraid to leave egos behind, roll up their sleeves and fix what doesn’t work. We don’t believe in micromanagement and trust our team to take full ownership of their responsibilities. We believe in transparency as a way to build trust, break communication barriers, and align towards a common goal. Finally, we want our people to stay and grow with the company and the only way to achieve this is by providing them with above-market-rate compensation, premier benefits, and generous stock options.

We're looking for a Backend Engineer with experience building high-performance micro-services and APIs. This is the job for someone that cares about building large, scalable, performant production systems running on modern cloud infrastructure (AWS).

About you:

• You are excited about startups and new products
• You enjoy building systems from the ground up
• You realize that products are built iteratively and specs evolve with customer feedback
• You care about system and code design: well architected code is easier to understand, refactor, evolve, and inherit
• You enjoy building highly scalable and low latency systems
• You care about products that have massive economic impact and have interest in FinTech

What we look for:

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, related technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2-5+ years of production level experience in Go, Java, Scala, or C++.
• Strong foundation in algorithms and data structures and their real-world use cases.
• Experience working with SQL databases
• Experience with microservices, distributed systems, data serialization protocols (protobufs), stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis)
• Experience with Go is a plus
• Experience with GraphQL is a plus

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Equity awards (after working for at least 3 month)
• Gym reimbursement
• Annual personal development fund
• Swanky new work laptop
• Work headphones reimbursement
• Regular offsites at fun locations