Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to enabling organizations to proactively find, fix and verify exploitable attack vectors. The Senior Backend Engineer will be a key contributor to user-facing product launches and platform enhancements, focusing on developing core product features and backend APIs to support data processing and analytics.
Responsibilities:
- Develop core product features in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and GraphQL to support data processing and retrieval
- Design and implement backend APIs in GraphQL to facilitate data interactions between different components of the product
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines for efficient data processing and analytics
- Collaborate with frontend team members to present data in a clear and user-friendly format, enhancing the product's user experience
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field
- 7+ yrs professional software engineering experience using modern object-oriented or functional languages (Python, Java, Go, Scala, C++, TypeScript, etc)
- Experience building applications on cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, using container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Expert proficiency in SQL
- Ability to own and manage concurrent initiatives, demonstrating effective judgment in prioritization and time management
- Driven, self-managed, capable of conceiving and implementing solutions on your own and with a team
- A strong desire to continuously improve and learn new technologies in a fast-paced Agile development environment
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, effective communication, attention to detail and high-quality work
- Strong technical documentation ability to support the development process
- Effective communication and collaboration with designers, developers, and product managers
- Ability and interest in mentoring junior and mid-level engineers to foster their growth and development
- Experience with various database architectures including relational (PostgreSQL) and graph (Neo4j)
- Experience building GraphQL backends
- Experience managing and maintaining production infrastructure
- Experience building platform capabilities for internal teams