Backend Engineer

We’re currently hiring backend engineers to join our core team. Join us to work on interesting challenges, use best-of-breed technologies, impact millions of developers, and be a part of our success.

We’re looking for self-starters who are passionate about developer tools, and have a good understanding of how to balance execution speed with maintainability.

You’ll work directly with the CEO, influence the product and the roadmap, and build a product that helps millions of developers make better open-source choices.

What you will be doing:

• Develop different product facets and features of Openbase, from the infrastructure, through DB models, to high performance APIs and data collectors.
• Built high-performance and resilient data collectors for package data - from multiple package registries and data sources, including GraphQL and REST APIs, source code analysis and more
• Work with, extend and optimize a huge PostgreSQL database containing billions of data points about millions of open source packages, including information, versions and community knowledge
• Develop performant GraphQL APIs with Postgraphile, Node and Express, and sophisticated database queries and optimizations.
• Deploy, optimize and debug our apps on our infrastructure on AWS (EBS, EC2, RDS) and Netlify

Ideally, you should have:

• Significant experience with modern backend development (preferably Node.js, which we use)
• Experience building internal APIs for web apps (we use GraphQL)
• Experience writing SQL with large data sets (we use Postgres)

Bonus:

• Familiarity with strongly-typed languages (we use TypeScript)
• Experience with modern web infrastructure (we use AWS and Netlify)
• Maintainer of open-source projects or packages
• Some experience with Python, Java or Go
• Experience with React