Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 July 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Sphinx Defense

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1 - 10 employees

🎖️ Defense

🔐 Security

Defense • Security • Software

Sphinx Defense is a technology company focused on engineering software solutions for space and national security. Founded by experienced engineers and technologists, the company aims to modernize outdated and insecure technologies used by service members in the United States and its allies. Sphinx Defense emphasizes secure, automated, intuitive, and functional software to solve complex national security challenges. The team is distributed across the U. S. , offering competitive benefits and a mission-focused culture.

📋 Description

• Building multi-tenant services on public cloud platforms like AWS • Building, architecting, and consuming APIs and backend services as part of the platform ecosystem with an emphasis on automation, testing, and security • Advocating for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have a particular impact on your team and others • Supporting junior engineering talent with mentorship or technical guidance • Interacting with customers and partners to help them integrate with our services • Scale the services and solve interesting Space Communication challenges

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of progressively responsible software engineering experience • Extensive experience with Python, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform • Demonstrable in-depth knowledge of at least one commercial cloud platform and its associated services • Led the architecture, development, and building of backend services and APIs to ensure performance, security, and reliability • Ability to successfully own technical problems end-to-end • Excellent communication skills, working with end-users to design and build solutions to their needs, a habit of self-directed learning of new technologies, and the ability to learn quickly and adapt to a fast-paced environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation includes competitive salary • meaningful equity ownership • profit sharing • employer 401(k) contribution • 100% employer covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.