Senior Backend Engineer

Develop state-of-the-art products. Make sense of the future. Use data to drive business. 

If you are passionate about building awesome products, we want you to help us make a huge impact. Our clients love our products and are thirsty for more!

At CB Insights we build products that help clients make sense of the future and drive their businesses forward using data. Our system retrieves large amounts of structured and unstructured data sets and uses scientific methods to extract knowledge and insights. We present those analytics through a sophisticated, dynamic user interface which enables our clients to find answers to their most important questions.

The Role You'll Play:

As a Senior Backend Engineer at CB Insights you will be part of a cross-disciplinary, self-motivated team with clear ownership and passion to form the future. Our team uses state-of-the-art technologies and writes quality code that ships often.

We focus on modularity and reuse where it makes sense, while ensuring that there are no constraints to delivering world-class software continuously.

About the team:

You will be part of a remote team located in the USA. We have a collaborative, “teach and learn” culture where the role evolves with your interests.  

If this sounds interesting to you, reach out and join CB Insights now!

Your Main Tasks:

• Develop features for our next generation market intelligence platform on a small Agile team. Areas of ownership include authentication and Single Sign-on. 
• Consistently and frequently deliver solutions that are well-engineered, maintainable and tested within the agreed upon timeframe.
• Participate in code reviews and sprint planning, help identify opportunities, work through challenges and share knowledge with colleagues.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand business requirements.

What you bring to the table:

• Proficiency in Go or Python for developing scalable applications.
• Hands-on experience with containerized microservices using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Expertise in writing and executing unit and integration tests to ensure application quality and reliability.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog.
• Proficient with cloud services, particularly AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda).
• Familiarity with Lean and Agile values and principles, working in collaborative, cross-functional remote teams.
• Experience working with both relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with non-relational databases such as MongoDB and DynamoDB.
• Familiarity with Apache Kafka …