Key skills
GoReact.jsPythonScalaAWSGCPMySQLAWS LambdaData StructuresAlgorithmsSystems DesignTestingReactServerlessLambda
About this role
Augment is an early-stage company looking for a Backend Engineer to join their team. The role involves developing new products and features, taking ownership of engineering infrastructure, and enhancing technical architecture and code quality.
Responsibilities:
- Develop new products, features, and integrations
- Design robust end-to-end systems supporting transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars
- Take ownership of all engineering infrastructure and product deliverables
- Enhance our technical architecture, infrastructure, security, tools, testing, and code quality
- Contribute to team culture and assist with recruitment efforts
Requirements:
- Develop new products, features, and integrations
- Design robust end-to-end systems supporting transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars
- Take ownership of all engineering infrastructure and product deliverables
- Enhance our technical architecture, infrastructure, security, tools, testing, and code quality
- Contribute to team culture and assist with recruitment efforts
- Enjoy building products and engineering infrastructure from scratch
- Have strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and systems design
- Write clean, robust code with a disciplined approach to testing
- Thrive in environments with ambiguity and uncertainty
- Experience with a modern programming language (Go, React.js, Python, Scala) with substantial code contributions
- Knowledge of public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP)
- Strong understanding of relational databases (MySQL)
- Experience with serverless technologies (AWS Lambda)
- Passion for fintech & marketplaces