Backend Engineer - Senior / Junior

Who are you?

You are an enthusiastic Backend Engineer who would like to use his/her coding skills to create big impact in the world. You will be creating a scalable and robust backend architecture. You love the challenge and opportunity to design application architectures from scratch and put your own unique stamp on it.

You are the kind of engineer that looks at tough or expensive challenges, and figures out ingenious solutions. You use the best of many tools to achieve the results you need. If there’s no good way to do something, you create software to do it.

Who are we?

We're an elite team, one of a kind in in the world, and we're working on building the world's first video marketplace. We are re-imagining how people buy and sell with video centric approach.

We're a Y Combinator company, and have some of Silicon Valley's biggest names as investors. 

We are on a mission to empower the world to buy and sell through video , and together we're conquering the world...one video at a time!

You can read more about our journey here:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/24/pet-video-marketplace-camlist-eyes-uk-growth-after-raising-1-3-million-pre-seed-funding

Why work with us?

Because we put people first!

Some of the benefits of working in Camlist are:

• UK company with team members around the world working together in a remote fashion (UK, US, UAE, Egypt, India)
• Work remotely from anywhere you like
• All our salaries are paid in US Dollars ($)
• AXA Gold medical insurance
• Stock options for all team members
• Unlimited vacation, work from home
• Working on the most challenging computational problems with the most advanced stack
• Incredible hand-picked team
• An amazing culture to work in
• Game changing innovation in the world of commerce, with thousands of happy users

Skills

• Familiarity with server side MVC web frameworks and REST APIs
• A track record of writing high-quality, elegant code
• Advanced understanding of one Backend language (NodeJS preferred)
• An understanding of relational database models
• Understanding of Machine Learning techniques is a plus
• Desires to have a role in the growth of a startup
• Stays motivated and knows how to be persistent
• Able to stay organizes while managing a backlog of issues of various priorities
• Enjoys digging through details to find improvements
• Familiarity with Git or other version control systems

Responsibilities

• Design services and build a highly scalable system architecture for your projects, and with other team members
• Build and optimize the state of the art marketing automation systems
• Conduct code reviews for your peers, and learn from code reviews conducted with you
• Help improve the code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
• Build and maintain a performant API system that serves the customer-facing console front-end
• Build monitoring & alerting platforms, automation tools and continuous integration environments
• Follow the product from inception to launch, and own large parts of the product’s execution