Senior Backend Engineer at Chowdeck

About the Role

• We're looking for experienced Backend Engineers at Chowdeck who'll be responsible for building the API infrastructure that powers our food delivery service on multiple fronts.
• The customer app, where people order food; our vendors' app, used by restaurant owners and the Rider's app, used by delivery drivers. Our tech stack consists of NodeJS, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Google Cloud, and other technologies.
• We're looking for curious, empathetic, and kind people who want to continue to grow their careers at a fast-growing tech startup that cares deeply about personal and professional development.

Responsibilities
We'll trust you to:

• Design, build and maintain features and improvements on our APIs, services, and systems.
• Solve technical problems of different scopes and complexity, including performance improvements
• Debug and fix production issues across services
• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Work with engineers across the company to build and maintain new features at a large scale.
• Recognise impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions, including implementing better standards, tooling, and processes.

Requirements
You'll thrive as a Senior Backend Engineer if you:

• Significant professional experience building large, highly available systems and experience as a team or technical lead is a plus.
• Have fundamental knowledge of Node, JavaScript, and MySQL
• Can write code that meets our standards for style, maintainability, testability and best practices for a high-scale web environment.
• Can think through product requirements to come up with ways of quickly solving problems without compromising quality
• Care deeply about speed, performance, and quality application design
• Can communicate what you're working on to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Have a deep and unrelenting focus on customer satisfaction and experience.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage
• MacBook Pro
• Smart, kind colleagues who are invested in your growth
• Free Lunch.