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Lead Backend Developer

Job title: Lead Backend Developer
Contract type: Freelance
Location: Portland
Discipline: Technology
Remote: No
Reference: 418291
Contact name: Adrienne Salzwedel-Bass

Job description

24 Seven is partnering with one of our large outdoor camping brand clients in search for a Lead Backend Developer. This is a fully remote role. 

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a talented backend developer with a Ruby background to lead our API team as we solve exciting new problems in the outdoor space. In this role, you’ll be working to evolve and maintain our API and other backend systems.

This position will report to the VP of Engineering.

We’re looking for people who:

  • Are great communicators — Effective communication is key to how we work. We value patience and empathy in our product planning, support, and day-to-day relations.
  • Work well both collaboratively and independently — We come together to pair on tricky problems and architecture, then dive deep on individual tasks.
  • Are ready to learn and share knowledge — Everyone comes to our company with their own set of skills and experiences. Cross-training, code review, mentorship, and curiosity all help us build better products.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead a team of 2-5 other backend developers working to evolve and maintain our core API and data pipelines.
  • Collaborate on API design and architecture decisions
  • Work closely with our frontend teams on the implementation of new product features
  • Diagnose and troubleshoot issues in production
  • Implement and maintain integrations with external services, such as Stripe, Iterable, Mapbox, and our campground partners

Experience and Requirements:

  • 8+ years of backend development experience on production apps in Ruby, Python, Java, or a similar language.
  • Experience managing developers and a desire to help your team flourish.
  • A working knowledge of Ruby and familiarity with Rails
  • A solid understanding of object-oriented programming and design
  • Relational database skills — we use PostgreSQL views, triggers, and functions

Extra Credit:

  • Experience with Elasticsearch
  • Familiarity with JSON-API
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