Advanced Back-End Engineer

The Role

• Design, develop and implement Backend components spanning APIs, serverless functions, distributed services, queue systems, data storage services and more.
• Contribute to decisions around architectural trade-offs on a system, as well as application level with performance requirements and external constraints in mind.
• Contribute to and implement security and data-protection best practices across systems.
• Raise the quality bar by maintaining effective test suites and writing clean code and documentation.
• Work together with your technical leads and clients to gather requirements, align expectations and provide updates on deliverables.
• Follow Loka’s career track for growth by demonstrating technical excellence, innovation, autonomy, ownership, communication and teamwork.
• Direct report to a Backend Lead.
• Stay up to date with industry trends to incorporate cutting-edge techniques and tools into projects.
• Participate in cross-functional collaboration with other teams (Machine Learning, Data Engineering, etc.) to ensure seamless integration of Backend solutions.
• Take full responsibility for assigned tasks and projects, ensuring accountability for outcomes and results.

Required Hard Skills

• 3+ years Backend development
• Fluent in Python or NodeJs (Typescript)
• Strong CS foundation
• Understanding of API/Web communication protocols (openapi, grpc, etc)
• Understand concurrency concepts in APIs/Web
• Understand cloud services and landscape
• Understand traditional and serverless architectures
• Capable of working container-first

Not Required but Nice to Have

• Languages: Go, Typescript, PHP, Ruby
• Frameworks: Django, FastAPI, NextJS, Express, Laravel, RoR
• Databases: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redis
• Experience working with and building CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working with AWS
• Experience with DevOps tools (AWS CDK, cdktf or terraform)
• Experience with generative AI tools and services
• Experience with observability tools and stacks

Additional Requirements

• Excellent English: As a global team we work entirely in English for meetings, customer calls and business communications
• CV written in English

Personality Profile

• Curious: You strive to learn and grow into different industries with a modern tech stack.
• Autonomous: We’re a fully remote, globally distributed team.
• Collaborative: You work well as a team player.
• Adaptable: You operate with a startup mindset and move at a startup pace.

Benefits

• Every other Friday off (26 extra days off a year)
• Remote and flexible
• Explore and Relocation programs (three months work abroad or full international relo)
• Paid sick days and local holidays
• Business English classes program
• Continuous Learning Support
• Fitness and/or Mental Health Subscriptions
• Access to LokaLabs™, our internal research and development program
• Defined career path

Your achievements matter to us! Be sure your CV, LinkedIn and GitHub profiles are up to date, written in English and accurately reflect your experience.