Winter International is hiringSenior Backend Engineer
We are Bloom Growth™—an ecosystem for the growth of your entire team. Our ecosystem includes foundational tools for strategic planning, defining roles, and a platform for both Leadership and Departmental teams to have powerful weekly meetings. Bloom is one brand within Winter International LLC. And, while you’ll be working for Bloom, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to connect with the rest of our Winter International LLC team. This position is 100% remote. Actually, our entire company is fully remote!
About The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Bloom Growth, you will play a crucial role in leading backend development efforts, mentoring junior team members, and driving the technical direction of our projects. You are responsible for developing, testing, and shipping a high-quality application that creates new possibilities for entrepreneurs and their team members. You’ll be focused on delivering impactful solutions that put users and outcomes first, while also ensuring the robustness and security of our systems. You will work on a small team of developers, designers, and product owners.
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Technical development and deployment:
- Design, develop, and deploy high-quality, user-focused backend solutions that deliver real value across the Bloom Growth ecosystem.
- Lead the development and maintenance of our backend services and GraphQL API, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
- Ensure our applications are fast, secure, and reliable.
- Utilize CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions to set up and maintain automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
- Apply iterative development practices to drive rapid feature improvements and ensure timely delivery.
- Risk management and best practices:
- Identify and mitigate technical risks early on to prevent potential issues, including data leaks, ensuring the security and integrity of our systems.
- Own the health and quality of the systems you build and advocate for best practices.
- Be proactive in identifying areas for improvement and taking action to enhance the system's performance and maintainability.
- Collaboration and cross-functional work:
- Work closely with our front-end developers and product team to build and improve features.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features, refactor existing code, and contribute to product strategy.
- Communicate effectively within the team and
- with leadership about progress, challenges, and technical decisions.
- Mentorship, leadership, and innovation:
- Review code, mentor junior developers, share your knowledge and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Take initiative in architectural discussions, code reviews, and decision-making processes, encouraging healthy debate to arrive at the best solutions.
- Bring new ideas to the table and help us stay ahead in tech.
- Prioritize user outcomes in all development processes, ensuring that our solutions address real user needs effectively.
*Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change over time as the organization grows and matures.
Qualifications/ What We Look For:
- 5+ years of experience in backend development, with expertise in C#, MySQL, and AWS.
- Solid understanding of software architecture and coding practices.
- Advanced understanding of CI/CD practices, particularly using GitHub Actions.
- Strong ability to identify technical risks and prevent potential issues, particularly regarding data security.
- Established practice of putting user needs and outcomes at the forefront of development efforts.
- History of taking initiative and driving technical projects from concept to completion.
- Strong leadership skills with a passion for mentoring and knowledge sharing.
- Committed to fostering a healthy team culture, including facilitating constructive debates and collaborative problem-solving.
- Comfortable working transparently, providing and receiving feedback, and championing continuous improvement.
- Preference for experience with data systems beyond MySQL/relational databases to support forward-looking architecture.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with front-end frameworks like React.js is a plus.
About You
Enough about us. The perfect fit for our team is…
- A team player. You have no problem rolling up your sleeves to help out a colleague.
- Friendly. You have a great attitude that lends itself to teamwork.
- Motivated. You go the extra mile because, for you, the bare minimum isn’t an option.
- An early adopter. You’re not intimidated by the latest tech. In fact, you love it!
- Organized. You stay on top of projects, and things rarely fall through the cracks.
- An optimizer. You are constantly looking for a better way to get things done, and you like sharing your ideas.
- Inquisitive. You love asking questions (specifically, “Why?”).
The Hiring Process
We take our hiring very seriously—and we hire equally for ability as we do culture fit. The last thing we want is for you to land a job you’re not happy or excited about. That’s not good for you, and it wouldn’t be good for us, either. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect from our hiring process. Please note steps may vary slightly depending on the position.
Step One: Phone Screen
Step Two: Interview with your direct supervisor.
Step Three: Technical interview (if applicable)
Step Four: Cultural interview
During the interview process, we’ll also ask you to take the Predictive Index Behavioral Assessment™. The Predictive Index measures your most natural behavioral tendencies and overall learning ability. It is not used as a disqualification tool, but rather a way to help us understand overall job fit, create unique interview questions based around your preferences, and ultimately create a better onboarding experience if you inevitably join our team.
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Compensation
The expected annual salary range for this role is $160k - $190k annually. Actual compensation within this range will be determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as any applicable employment laws. This salary range is for someone whose permanent address is in the United States.
Benefits
- 100% Remote
- Immediate eligibility for 401K and employer match
- Medical Insurance
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid Parental Leave
- Professional Development
- Company Paid Holidays
Who We Are
At every level, we’re committed to having a culture that rocks. Our team is the most valuable asset we have, and we’re proud to be a diverse, international, and passionate group of people. We live and breathe honesty, kindness, helpfulness, continual learning, and creative problem-solving. All while being 100% remote!
Around the office (i.e., our Zoom rooms), you’ll hear the word “transparency” a lot, and for a good reason; we believe in radical candor. That is, we believe that honesty, openness, and empathy are just as powerful as a hard skill set, and we live that belief at every level of our organization.
Winter International LLC dba Bloom Growth provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form I9 upon hire. Winter International LLC participates in the E-Verify program.
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