Senior Backend Software Engineer

GOAT Group is a leading platform for authentic sneakers, apparel, and accessories, with a global community of over 60 million members. They are seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to solve complex problems, grow scalable systems, and contribute to their technical vision by collaborating with cross-functional teams to build features and improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to build features and improvements
• Extend our API and back-end systems
• Interface directly with our PostgreSQL cluster
• Add to and improve our testing environment
• Solve challenges in architecture, security, anti-fraud, performance, scalability, personalization, optimization, payments and more
• Be a helpful and supportive presence on the team, contributing to code reviews and other team processes
• Keep up with the latest development trends in server-side technologies
• Mentor and sponsor other engineers in your areas of expertise
• Coordinate and communicate seamlessly across other technical and product teams
• Be part of an on-call rotation
• Use LLMs, when appropriate, to improve the product and development workflows

Requirements:

• 4+ years of engineering experience
• Experience building, maintaining, or architecting one or more production web applications
• Knowledge of and opinions on API design, database design, naming, and simplifying complex services
• Understanding of operational concerns such as deployment, migrations, configuration, and provisioning
• Professional experience with the technologies with which we work (Ruby on Rails with Sorbet, PostgreSQL, AWS)