Senior Backend Engineer (Core Product)
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Job overview
Sequencing is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (Core Product). As a Senior Backend TypeScript Engineer, you will build and maintain high-performance backend services for core personalized health experiences. You will collaborate with other senior engineers to develop scalable infrastructure APIs and event-driven services, ensuring fast, reliable, and personalized health insights from genomic data. The role focuses on optimizing production systems, integrating various services, and driving end-to-end feature development with a strong emphasis on user experience.
Key focus areas include Design, build, and maintain performant backend services in TypeScript., Build and grow scalable infrastructure APIs and event-driven services., and Support and optimize production-ready backend systems..
Successful candidates bring 5+ Years Backend Development Experience. Important skills include TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS SQS, Centrifugo, and Functional Programming. Preferred (not required): Genomics, Health Data, Personalization Systems, and Rust.
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Full job description
The Position
As a Senior Backend TypeScript Engineer you build and maintain the high performance backend services that power our core personalized health experiences. You work side by side with other senior engineers to build and grow scalable infrastructure APIs and event driven services. When you do this well people get fast reliable personalized health insights from their genome instead of slow or broken experiences.
The Impact
- Design build and maintain performant backend services in TypeScript that power our core personalized experiences.
- Build and grow scalable infrastructure APIs and event driven services that deliver data driven features to users.
- Support and optimize production ready backend systems so they stay fast and dependable under load.
- Integrate and manage services such as PostgreSQL MySQL AWS SQS and Centrifugo in the backend.
- Make systems reliable secure and observable so people can trust their DNA data is safe.
- Own and drive end to end feature development with a strong eye on user experience.
- Write clean reliable code with performance and maintainability in mind from the start.
- Champion clean code technical excellence and continuous improvement across the team.
- Debug test and performance tune across services to catch problems before users feel them.
- Maintain modernize and migrate legacy code so older systems keep up with new demand.
- Take ownership of complex problems and drive them to a clear working solution.
Dominant and Expressed Traits
- 5+ years of backend development experience.
- Expert with TypeScript and comfortable owning production backend services.
- Experience with functional programming.
- Deep hands on experience with PostgreSQL MySQL and service based architectures.
- Strong debugging testing and performance tuning skills.
- Able to work independently while collaborating closely with key teammates.
- Customer driven with a passion for building systems that deliver exceptional experiences.
- Nice to have familiarity with genomics health data or personalization systems startup or fast paced environments or Rust.
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