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\nJob Title: Senior Backend Engineer\n\nHomer is looking for an exceptional backend Software Engineer to join our energetic, growing team. You will have a profound impact on a company that touches the lives of children, parents, and teachers across the globe with one of the most celebrated reading and learn-to-read platforms in the industry.\n\nAs the Software Engineer, you will be a key member of our engineering team, building the back end services and infrastructure essential to our growing business. \n\nHomer is a venture-backed, high-growth business that offers competitive compensation including equity and full benefits in a creative, flexible environment that invests in professional development.\n\nAbout you:\n\n\n* You should be enthusiastic about learning and applying new cutting edge technologies.\n\n* You take ownership of your own work.\n\n* You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and are able to convey a very technical situation to less technical colleagues. \n\n* You are able to plan and lead a project from start to finish.\n\n* You are pragmatic, able to determine when and why it is the right call to take a step back and refactor old code versus putting together a quick fix. \n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Develop and maintain key internal and public-facing back end systems\n\n* Design redundant and scalable architectures for high performance web and mobile delivery\n\n* Engineer simple and elegant solutions to challenging problems\n\n* Design and engineer secure RESTful APIs\n\n* Promote best practices in coding and architecture\n\n* Collaborate with and mentor other members of engineering team through code reviews and paired programming\n\n* Estimate and track projects using Agile methodologies\n\n\n\n\nQualifications\n\n\n* 7+ years of experience in Node.js\n\n* 4+ years of experience in Python2/3\n\n* 4+ years of experience in database experience in MongoDb.\n\n* 4+ years of experience in unit testing and continuous delivery.\n\n* 3+ years experience in modeling and querying relational databases (ex: mysql, postgres)\n\n* Strong knowledge of continuous delivery.\n\n* Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services \n\n* Strong knowledge of software fundamentals design/architectural patterns. Experience with MVC frameworks\n\n* Experience working on a team with multiple developers\n\n* Experience building CMS and reporting systems\n\n* Experience configuring web servers running under Linux \n\n* Experience using a content delivery network (CDN) like Akamai or Cloudfront\n\n* Git source code management experience\n\n* Experience developing with third party APIs\n\n* Excellent written and verbal communication skills\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n\n\n* Good knowledge of HTML/CSS\n\n* Good knowledge of authentication, encryption and security techniques\n\n* Knowledge of basic system administration and shell scripting\n\n* Knowledge of front end technologies (Javascript, CSS 2/3, HTML 5, etc.)\n\n* Knowledge in PCI and COPPA compliance \n\n* Prior experience in a startup environment\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Backend, Amazon, CSS, HTML, Mobile and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n
$70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n
๐ฐ 401(k)\n\n๐ Distributed team\n\nโฐ Async\n\n๐ค Vision insurance\n\n๐ฆท Dental insurance\n\n๐ Medical insurance\n\n๐ Unlimited vacation\n\n๐ Paid time off\n\n๐ 4 day workweek\n\n๐ฐ 401k matching\n\n๐ Company retreats\n\n๐ฌ Coworking budget\n\n๐ Learning budget\n\n๐ช Free gym membership\n\n๐ง Mental wellness budget\n\n๐ฅ Home office budget\n\n๐ฅง Pay in crypto\n\n๐ฅธ Pseudonymous\n\n๐ฐ Profit sharing\n\n๐ฐ Equity compensation\n\nโฌ๏ธ No whiteboard interview\n\n๐ No monitoring system\n\n๐ซ No politics at work\n\n๐ We hire old (and young)\n\n
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