Senior Backend Software Engineer
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- 2+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software
- Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment
- Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work
- Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems
- Data model design, and API development experience
- SQL query optimization and database internals
- Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success
### What the job involves
- Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture
- Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology
- You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users
- Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis
- Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes
- Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application
- Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues
- Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base
- Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies
### Benefits
- Competitive pay: Competitive salaries aligned with market rates—because we value your experience and contributions.
- Flexible Schedule: Work in the way that suits you—Sigma supports flexibility in how and when you work best.
- Health, Dental & Vision Insurance: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- 401(k) Plan: Plan for your future with our 401(k) offering.
- Bi-annual Hackathons: Make, create, innovate—hack alongside peers twice a year.
- Unlimited Time Off: Recharge when you need—no limits on vacation days.
- Health & Wellness: Support for your overall well-being. We offer Carrot Pro, Wellhub+, Rightway, and OneMedical.
- Parental Leave: Paid leave to welcome new family members.
- Unagi Scooters: Zip to work on us with Unagi scooter benefits provided for free!
- Daily Lunches, Office Snacks, Coffee: Good vibes and great taste—lunch provided daily through DoorDash, unlimited snacks, coffee, tea, Celsius, and more!
- Professional Development & Career Growth: Clear career progression paths and room to grow into leadership, Support for conferences, L&D, and career growth.
- Commuter benefits
- Lunch reimbursement
- Pension with 3% match
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