We're Proof, a startup in the legal tech industry. We’ve built a best-in-class legal services platform that is used by thousands of law firms, and growing over 10% month-over-month. We’re looking for talented individuals to join our team as we continue to scale and grow as a company.
What you’ll do as a backend engineer:
- Play an integral role in the development of the Proof platform, working with a small but powerful team of engineers.
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure scalability, performance and alignment with standards and best practices in an agile programming environment.
- Write code primarily in Go.
- Help the team define and maintain development best practices.
- Drive the creation of new features and service offerings, as well as the enhancement of existing services.
What we’ll expect you to know on day one:
- 5+ years experience writing production-grade code in a modern programming language.
- Extensive experience with at least one backend programming language. (e.g. Go, Ruby, Java).
- Ability and willingness to learn and adapt to new languages and technologies.
- Experience with or desire to work with service-oriented architecture
- Proven understanding of REST APIs and the network stack.
- Experience with GraphQL.
- Proficiency in using version control systems such as Git.
- Strong relational database knowledge; design, query optimization, transactional execution, etc.
- Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance space and time.
- Experience in taking ownership of features, while working with a team on short and long-running projects.
- Extensive experience writing automated software tests (e.g. unit tests, integration tests).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker.
- You're a proactive communicator; you communicate concerns and blockers early and often.
- You’re able to drive major projects across multiple products or systems from design to implementation.
- You can identify and troubleshoot ambiguous, open-ended problems effectively.
Great to have, but not required:
- Knowledge and experience of event-driven architecture and message brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka).
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Experience with Typescript and frontend technologies.
- Contributions to open-source projects.
Benefits:
100% remote
Flexible work schedule
Unlimited paid time off
$120,000 - $160,000 salary based on location and experience
Career growth opportunities
Health care, vision, dental, disability insurance, and 401K options
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United States
CA and US only
