What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer (Backend) position at CM Search?
Scope of Role
- Learn new concepts and technologies quickly and apply them to challenging problems
- Design and build robust and extensible infrastructure to handle evolving and complex federal, state, and agency regulations
- Dive deep to understand the inner workings of a highly complex industry
- Work with Product and Design to define the best experience for our customers
MUST HAVE SKILLS
- candidates MUST have a LinkedIn profile photo
- Experience at a well known, high growth tech startup (see target companies below) - ideally fintech
- Backend expertise (front end engineers will be denied)
- 4-6 years of software engineering experience in the United States building quality software applications at scale
- Resume shows promotions/career progression (candidate's title needs to be senior level or above)
- The strong preference for this role is NYC or SF. Remote candidates are acceptable if they are currently at a well known fintech (ex. Stripe)
- Strong communicator. Able to work cross-functionally to balance product and technical requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science preferred
- Great at building scalable systems from scratch with a fast turnaround
- Experience with one or more of the following: web application development, mobile application development, building large-scale distributed systems, or infrastructure management
- Time management skills that will maximize efficiency in a fast paced startup environment