Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Bolt

Berlin, Germany

About the role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems. That will mostly happen via coding in Node.js and TypeScript (PS: no previous experience with Node.js is needed).

Main tasks and responsibilities:

• Architecting, designing, developing, and deploying Bolt's growing backend systems;
• Contributing ideas and constructive feedback to our product development roadmap;
• Helping lead features/initiatives from idea to positive execution;
• Working closely with Product to slice and dice scope and deliver piece by piece;
• Sharing your knowledge by giving tech talks, and promoting appropriate tech and engineering best practices in and outside of the team.

About you:

• You have experience of thriving in an environment that has a fast customer-feedback cycle and having empathy for the end-user;
• You are great at making data-driven and metric-driven decisions;
• You have a drive for leading initiatives and features till the end, even if the last mile is the hardest;
• You feel at home with microservice architecture and you are experienced in API design;
• You have strong principles towards writing clean, simple, secure, and maintainable code;
• You have a deep understanding of how to write readable, testable, maintainable, and performant code.