Backend Engineer- Strategy Platform

Are you ready to shape the future of professional collaboration?

Join us as a Backend Engineer and play a crucial role in developing a state-of-the-art strategy platform that connects innovators and professionals worldwide. Your contributions will be key to evolving a tool that fosters creativity, strategic planning, and impactful collaboration across various industries.

What you’ll be working on?

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of building and optimizing the core systems that power our professional collaboration platform. This platform is designed to unify and streamline negotiation processes, offering tools that enable real-time collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and strategic guidance. Your work will directly impact the platform’s ability to support seamless and effective collaboration across a global user base.

Your Role

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll be responsible for architecting and developing a scalable and robust backend that ensures our platform delivers exceptional performance and reliability. Your work will be instrumental in empowering users to transform their ideas into successful ventures and fostering global collaboration. Your responsibilities include:

• Architect and Optimize: Design and optimize backend systems using Node.js and PostgreSQL to ensure the platform can scale seamlessly as our user base grows.
• Enhance Performance: Continuously improve the platform’s performance and scalability to meet the demands of a global user base.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with the frontend team to create seamless API integrations, ensuring a smooth user experience.
• Implement Security and Reliability: Develop secure, reliable systems that facilitate strategic collaboration and protect user data.

About Camplight

We build self-organizing technical teams, offer software development services, and work with businesses and entrepreneurs to create new products.

With over 300 successful software projects, some ongoing for over 8 years, we strive for long-term success for our partners.

By following the principles of self-management and organizing as a cooperative, we achieve 95% satisfaction among them.

We seek the best talents to join us and value transparency, collaboration, trust, responsibility, and innovation.

When joining Camplight, you can become a co-owner of the cooperative, allowing you to steer the business and share in the rewards of our collective success.

What are we looking for?

• Ownership mindset: We want individuals who care about their work. Individuals who take pride in being professionals, have high standards and deliver on them. This is the main way Camplight stands out in front of competitors.
• Technical expertise: We expect you to know your tools and be able to write high-quality software efficiently.
• Communication skills: You’ll be frequently communicating with our partners and other team members. That’s why it’s important to have clear written and verbal communication, outstanding English, emotional intelligence, and a desire to understand the person in front of you. Knowledge of how to distill requirements and manage stakeholder expectations will be a big plus.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in backend development, with a strong track record of building scalable systems.
• Proficiency in Node.js and PostgreSQL is essential.
• Experience with PostGraphile and Graphile Worker is highly desirable.
• Experience with Docker, AWS, and scalable infrastructure.

What do we offer?

We focus on health, wealth, and empowering relationships:

• Fully remote work with flexible work hours
• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to become a co-owner of the cooperative
• Individual career development plan
• Friendly team and company culture
• Prioritization of mental and physical health in the workplace, with the freedom to make decisions about oneself, supported by peers committed to a healthy lifestyle.
• Empowering relationships for engineering alongside colleagues who cherish growth mindsets in a unique environment that blends service and product craftsmanship.

What does the interview process look like?

1. Initial Interview: We’ll start with a friendly 45-minute cultural and technical interview. Two members of our team will assess your cultural fit, past experience, and engineering expertise, the major challenges you’ve tackled, and discuss your ideal workspace.
2. You can choose between two Technical Deep Dive options:
   1. Homework Assignment: If there’s a match, we’ll provide a brief homework assignment designed to take around 2 hours to complete. This will be followed by a 1-hour technical interview to discuss the homework and conduct a technical deep dive.
   2. Pair Programming: If you prefer not to do a homework assignment, we’ll have a 2-hour technical deep dive session, primarily focused on pair programming.

Regardless of the outcome, we will provide you with constructive feedback to help you grow.