The Backend Developer’s mission is to build the APIs and user interfaces that thousands of developers use when they deploy their sites on Netlify.
Our main office is located in the Dogpatch district in San Francisco, CA. Currently, were not considering remote candidates for this position.ST.
Some of the challenges youll be working on:
* Build new features to make working with Netlify a fantastic experience for developers.
* Build internal tools to help our other teams interact with our users.
* Integrate our Open Source (https://www.netlify.com/open-source) projects with the rest of Netlifys platform.
* Make using our CLI a delightful experience for new and experienced users.
To be effective in this role, youll benefit from experience in:
* Highly scalable APIs.
* Building web applications with Ruby and Rails for more than 2 years.
* Writing web applications with a decoupled JavaScript frontend.
* UI and UX experience.
* Web and CDN technologies.
* Internet standards like HTTP, DNS, and TLS.
Competencies that we value in candidates:
* You enjoy helping and mentoring other engineers to grow.
* You can focus on key priorities and pragmatic solutions.
* You can adjust quickly to changing priorities and conditions.
* You are curious about compiled programming languages. We use Go and C++ in other areas of our infrastructure.
About the team
Though the team is small, we are a fast-growing startup. You will be working across the company. There are only twenty of us, so you are getting in at a time when we need people who can help us build a path towards the future. We believe that empowered, engaged employees do the best work. Well be giving you the tools you need to succeed and looking to you for suggestions for improvement not just in your daily job, but in many other aspects of building a company. Whether you work from our main office in San Francisco, or you are a remote employee, well be working together a lot – particularly, pairing and collaborating – we want you to succeed! We dont want you to work too hard (burnout is real), and we do want to encourage you to grow ( impostor syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome) is also real) – and well help you do that.
Netlify is devoted to building a team of people with different backgrounds and lifestyles. We eagerly invite applications from people of all kinds. We dont discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, citizenship, pregnancy status, or any other differences. If we can do anything to provide a better interview, i.e. accommodate a disability, then please do let us know.