Full-time Role: Backend engineer

Rock is building a rapidly growing productivity platform that enables anyone to work from anywhere. We are looking for an experienced web developer with proven experience building web applications. You will be part of a globally distributed team which is headquartered in San Francisco, but with people in over 10 countries.

We are looking for an experienced web/database/high-load backend developer. You will be responsible for the server side of our collaboration application, e.g. architecting the public APIs and internal structures, planning for scalability, release engineering and deployment.

‍Responsibilities

• Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on architecture and coding
• Designing public APIs for the requested functionality
• Accomplishing new functionality with unit and functional tests
• Planning and writing data migrations for seamless upgrades
• Collaborating with Front End to clarify API designs and make sure all edge cases are considered in the API design
• Reviewing the code of other back-end developers

Requirements

• 5+ years of back-end programming
• Experience with programming web or network server applications in Golang, Node.js, Rust or Python, including parallel/concurrent programming patterns
• Experience with git (and particularly Github) workflow
• Excellent analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

Preferred

• DevOps experience with AWS infrastructure (set up, automation, and maintenance).
• Experience with database design, both SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and document-style databases..
• Familiarity with front-end technologies, ranging from basic HTML/CSS/JS to frameworks like Vue.js and Flutter.
• Experience with data analytics tools like Clickhouse and Grafana.

Contact

If interested send your resume plus a link to your Github portfolio to jobs@rock.so