Sr. Backend Engineer

Opportunity to work remotely in Colombia

 Please note that this is a remote role within our Global market, specifically for candidates legally authorized to work in Colombia

If you are a US-based candidate, please visit our Careers Page to explore other opportunities.

Join our team as a Sr. Backend Engineer, where you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, driving the development of robust and scalable backend systems. Your expertise will help shape the backbone of our technical infrastructure, ensuring high perfomance and responsiveness of our suite of products. 

At HR Acuity®, we empower our team to #BeBold—embracing innovation and new challenges. With the right tools, we help you #WorkSmarter, fostering collaboration so we can all be #BetterTogether. If you're excited about being part our growth story, we’d love to chat!

About Us: HR Acuity® is the leading provider of employee relations case management and investigation software. We help organizations standardize how workplace issues are reported, documented, and investigated. Our data-driven approach  to managing workplace issues helps our clients and partners build trusted, inclusive cultures where employees feel safe.

This is an #All-in Zone. We are a fast-growing, innovative company where being #All-in is the norm. From our female founder CEO to every team member, we embrace a fully engaged mindset. We bring our best every day, fueled by passion for our mission and culture—and we expect the same from everyone who joins us.

At the same time, we are deeply committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse workplace where different perspectives are valued and respected. We believe in creating an environment where everyone can show up as their authentic selves and thrive. If this sounds like you, keep reading.

• Apply established coding standards, architectural patterns, SOLID principles, and unit/behavioral test automation practices to directly contribute to product development
• Balance development new user-facing and system-level .Net based features/ functionality with support of existing functionality
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Translate Product requirements into scalable and performant technical designs
• Optimize services for maximum speed and scalability
• Participate in agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
• Work with development and product teams to understand, estimate, and refine requirements for product features and stories
• Perform code reviews and ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards
  
  

• 3-5 years of engineering experience 
• 2+ years of experience working on large-scale distributed event-based SaaS applications 
• World class design and programming skills with deep expertise in .NET preferred 
• Strong proficiency in one or more additional languages with a preference for Go and Typescript; experience with React or other modern UI frameworks a plus 
• Experience working closely with DevOps to deliver software through CI/CD pipelines into containerized hosting environments, ideally on Kubernetes 
• Tangible experience with Kafka or other event streaming platform with an understanding of the benefits and challenges of asynchronously integrating services with these platforms 
• Extensive experience with relational, nosql, and other datastores with the ability to talk in depth about when and why to choose one vs the other 
• Experience in building cloud native solutions using Azure, AWS, or another cloud provider 
• Experience with automating the testing at all levels of the stack (unit tests, integration tests, regression tests, etc.) 
• Comfort using Feature Flags to incrementally enable functionality across the customer base 
• Appreciation for the operational aspects of SaaS engineering, including experience with incident management and using SLOs and other system observability techniques to proactively understand system health 
• Experience decomposing monolithic applications and databases into microservices 
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills 
• Adept at managing their time with clear, organized thinking
• Excellent teamwork and coordination skills with the ability to drive consensus and create clarity from ambiguity 
• BS in Computer Science or related technical field experience preferred