Backend Software Engineer 2

Role Overview

• Contribute to the design and implementation of product features that align with technical strategy, quality standards, and functional requirements.
• Develop clean, maintainable code along with corresponding automated tests.
• Participate in release planning, providing reliable estimations and delivering work that meets scope and quality expectations.
• Engage in code reviews and other collaborative engineering practices.
• Take part in daily standups, sprint ceremonies, and retrospective discussions.
• Participate in security reviews of new development to help ensure compliance with Sophos security requirements and industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues, escalating complex problems to more senior team members when appropriate.

Requirements

• Practical experience building backend services or APIs in a modern programming language (TypeScript preferred but not required).
• Good understanding of API design, request/response lifecycles, and common integration patterns.
• Experience writing clean, maintainable code accompanied by automated tests.
• Awareness of secure coding practices, authentication/authorization concepts, and cloud native development.
• Ability to debug production issues methodically and collaborate with senior engineers on complex problems.
• Solid problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Experience using test automation frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jest).
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• TypeScript backend development experience using Node.js/TypeScript for API or service layer development, understanding runtime considerations, type driven development, dependency injection, and module architecture (Desirable).
• Microservice architecture familiarity with distributed system concepts such as service boundaries, interservice communication, API gateways, observability, logging/metrics, configuration management, and handling failure modes gracefully (timeouts, retries, backoff, circuit breakers) (Desirable).
• PostgreSQL (RDBMS) understanding of relational schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, transactions, database migrations, and ORMs or query builders commonly used with TypeScript (Prisma, Drizzle, Knex) (Desirable).
• Experience with containerized development workflows (Docker and Kubernetes), cloud platforms, or serverless components (Desirable).
• Knowledge of messaging systems or event-driven patterns is a plus (Desirable).
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines (Desirable).

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Docker
• JavaScript
• Jest
• Kubernetes
• Mocha
• Node.js
• Postgres
• RDBMS
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach.
• Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
• Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
• Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
• Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
• Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
• Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing