Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer

Bolt

Tallinn, Estonia

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 thrive in fast-paced, customer-feedback-driven environments with empathy for end-users.
• You excel in making data-driven, metric-based decisions, and leading initiatives to completion.
• You have expertise in microservice architecture, API design, and distributed high-volume systems.
• You have strong principles in writing clean, secure, and maintainable code that is readable and testable.
• You are experienced with cloud systems (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and relational databases.
• You are familiar with real-time, asynchronous systems, and highly available infrastructure is a plus.