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Senior Backend Engineer

Firefly

Firefly

Software Engineering
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Saturday, January 6, 2024
Welcome to Firefly! We're a startup company that brings clarity to complex cloud environments. We provide companies with centralized and comprehensive asset management across multi-cloud, enabling teams to prevent nasty surprises. If unraveling cloud chaos excites you, join our dynamic team!

At Firefly, we empower curious and creative minds to develop innovative solutions. We encourage pushing boundaries through a culture focused on experimentation, calculated risks, and learning. Our successes come from supporting one another's growth.

At Firefly, we are looking for a talented Backend Engineer to join our R&D team.

As a part of the team, you will participate in designing and building our next-generation cloud-based solutions. You will face challenges of performance, scalability, and availability in multi-cloud environments with the newest services and tools.

This genuinely unique R&D position puts you in charge of everything in the system and the development cycle.

If contributing your expertise to redefine the cloud alongside our talented engineers appeals to you, review our open positions today. Firefly is where you can grow your wings.

Responsibilities:

As a Backend Engineer, you will

  • Work in a scrum environment
  • Work at an extremely agile team in dynamic environments
  • Participate in our service development and cloud-based environments within R&D
  • Take part in infrastructure and system design
  • Use the latest technology and manage our high-performance, high-scale infrastructure on top of AWS and Google Cloud resources using multiple 3rd party modern development tools, such as Golang stack, K8s and Elasticsearch
  • Ensure proper security, monitoring, alerting and reporting for our backend services
  • Work closely with our product team

Requirements:

You should join us if you

  • Have at least 2 years of mastery of at least 2 different server-side programming languages (GoLang is an advantage) - a must
  • Have significant experience creating and utilizing RESTful API and scalable performance systems - a must
  • Have experience working in a SaaS company
  • Have experience in infrastructure tools: K8s, Elasticsearch, Logstash - an advantage
  • Have experience with DevOps practices and technologies such as Terraform and Helm Chart - an advantage
  • Have experience working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, and Elastic - an advantage
  • Have a deep understanding of cloud architecture and modern system design principles (preferred AWS or GCP) - an advantage
  • Have the ability to take responsibility and work independently with a "can do" attitude and strong interpersonal and communication skills

Firefly is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Firefly is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.