Lead Backend Developer

We are a talented, dedicated, small, international team, passionate about building great things. Our developers closely collaborate with other company departments to produce three outstanding products. Our company culture depends on strong interpersonal professional relationships, and is rooted in a set of shared values. We embrace extreme innovation and take pride in the quality of our work. We don't have ego issues and are focused on results - ultimately, on serving our clients and having a positive impact on people's lives, while enjoying our own.

This role may be a good fit for you if you are:

• Detail oriented
• Have a passion for finding simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
• Are equally passionate about writing tests for said solutions
• Have experience and a passion for designing elegant APIs
• Have experience building web applications at large scale
• Have experience with node.js, express, Postgres, and AWS

Rotunda's existing products are depended upon by over 30,000 people a day, and the candidate who fills this position will be responsible for maintaining and optimizing the existing node.js backend infrastructure for those products.

In addition, our new communication tool, Unison, is in rapid development and has explosive growth potential. We are looking for somebody who can ensure that this new product can be used effectively by organizations with tens of thousands of members. For example, among other challenging projects, this role will work together with DevOps to implement a highly generalized and scalable map-reduce querying mechanism leveraging lambda functions.

Originally posted on Himalayas