Lead Backend Engineer - Social / Platform

Job Description

The worlds only universal shopping app. nate is a venture-backed, intelligent automation, social shopping and payments startup, with offices in New York and London. nate just closed its series A round, raising 38MM from Renegade, Forerunner Ventures,Coatue and Canaan, among others.nate was created based on the principle of humans inspire, machines execute. It guides our team to create a product and company that is truly consumer and privacy first, and that will play a part in online shopping solutionsfrom moment of inspiration to purchase.The nate team is a special one. Check out [nate.tech/join](http://nate.tech/join) to take a closer peak at our principles and company experience. You can expect a culture that is very dynamic, open, and a team that ishighly passionate about what we do. Sounds like something youd fit in with Apply.*About the role:*As we grow and scale as a company, we are looking for a Lead Backend Engineer who can take our services to the next level. Our user base, number of clientsand services are continuously growing and we need you to be at the forefront of developing, maintaining and improving our services whilst not compromising on code quality, development culture and security of our environments.The Social teams focus is to makeonline shopping a truly social experience. At the heart of this is our list feature, allowing users to save items into personally curated lists which can then be shared with others. Tapping into a users existing social networks, we aim to promote discoverabilityby driving authentic peer-to-peer recommendations of products.The Platform teams goal is to help our feature teams move faster and safer, as well as owning and maintaining the shared services across all our domains.It means working with a team of motivatedindividuals who are as passionate about the future of commerce and artificial intelligence as we are. And it also means being an equity-holder, a doer, a risk-taker, a leader and an example to others.***What you will be doing:** Maintaining and expanding ourB2C microservices* Developing and maintaining user facing services that supports the front end application* Collaborating with the scrum team for scrum ceremonies, backlog refinement and sprint planning* Supporting with the day to day management of the team***Aboutyou:** Experience with at least one general purpose programming language (we use Ts/Js and GO)* Experience with AWS cloud services (and/or Azure or GCP)* Experience working with Unix/Linux environments and distributed systems* Proficient with Microservicesarchitecture and containerisation tools, such as Docker* Experience with unit and integration tests* Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code tools* Creativity in problem solving and algorithmic thinking* Openness to guide and mentor team membersand lead on projects* Interest in learning new technologies and methodologies-* Absolute work title freedom* Personal growth Fridays* Massage therapy sessions* Group guided meditations* Team building trips* Global AI events and conferences* Coffee, tea, fruitand snacks* Unlimited vacation days* Competitive compensation* Recruiter Interview - 30 mins* Hiring Manager Interview - 30 mins* Challenge - Take Home* Interview - 2 hours* Culture Interview - 30 minsNode.js, Typescript, Java, JavaScript, PythonNode.js, Typescript,AWS