As a Backend Engineer on our application team at Windfall, you will be building the system for ingesting and processing our customer data. It is the “brains” of everything our customers interact with. Communication and collaboration are at the heart of Windfall and you will work closely with our product and our other engineering teams. You will personally design and build a scalable distributed system capable of supporting Windfall’s next phase of growth.
We’re on a mission to change how organizations perceive and use people data. And we hold true to our core values of: (1) Be an excellent communicator; (2) Operate with transparency; (3) Provide leverage, not optimization; (4) Win When Our Customers Win; and (5) Act with integrity and trust.
What you will do:
Architect and build distributed services that will power Windfall’s customer facing applications
Plan for scale in building solutions for today that will also set us up for future success and growth
Work closely with other backend, frontend, and data engineers to build a seamless product for our customers
Drive technical design, specifications, and implementation for our various backend services
Integrate and model complex customer data for powerful segmentation tools and enrichment workflows
Some technologies you will use:
Cloud platform - GCP
Programming languages - Java, Kotlin
Web framework - Spring Boot
Messaging system - Google PubSub
Data warehouse & databases - Postgres, BigQuery
Kubernetes & Docker
Requirements:
5+ years of experience
Professional backend software engineering experience
Expert object-oriented programming understanding
Experience using transactional databases
Experience building distributed systems
Understanding of web development & frontend communication
You communicate as well as you code
You can simplify complex problems into simple solutions
You balance a strong sense of ownership and responsibility in your work with collaboration and team alignment
You are comfortable making trade-offs between quality, complexity, and speed-of-delivery