Senior Backend Engineer

About Us

Ravacan is:

• Built by experts in sourcing and supply.
• Disrupting how hardware companies source components and collaborate with their international suppliers.
• Well funded seed stage startup headquartered in San Francisco & with offices in Paris & Shenzhen.
• Rapidly growing, loved and adored by industry-leading OEMs and suppliers

We're Looking For

A senior back-end engineer with an excellent track record launching B2B SAAS products. You enjoy taking initiatives and you are not afraid to get out of your comfort zone. You are ambitious & data-driven.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to, and have a long-term vision for, the engineering team culture in collaboration with the founders
• Build APIs using server-side code (NodeJS and python)
• Build integrations to various third party cloud applications/web services (SAP, Netsuite etc.)
• Design, architecture multi-Application Authentication solution using SSO and JWT
• Make decisions about code design, architecture, and refactoring to balance technical debt against delivering functionality.
• Build for scale, availability, performance and security across the stack

Must-haves

• Masters Degree
• 6+ years working in web development
• 4-5+ years of related work experience building scalable RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency in the fundamentals of data structures and algorithms
• Experience deploying, hosting on AWS (Lambda, EC2, ECS, S3, CloudFront)
• You enjoy taking ownership of tasks and projects
• Ability to quickly understand and work with unfamiliar complex code
• Full professional English proficiency, clear communication is essential for this remote work position

Nice to Have

• Experience in frontend technologies such as Angular/React.
• Experience in data modeling and data pipelines.
• Python/Django qualifications

Benefits

• Work from anywhere with a remote-friendly team
• Opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and help shape the company's industry leadership
• Generous PTO / sick leave
• Seed-stage equity
• If based in the US: Health insurance

Values

DRY, speed, team, kind, customer-focused, big picture

Diversity

Ravacan is an equal opportunity employer-led by minorities: we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.