Senior Backend Engineer

🕒 March 24

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watchTowr

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤝 B2B

💰 $19M Series A - watchTowr on 2024-10

Cybersecurity • B2B

watchTowr is a high-growth cybersecurity company that builds solutions and services to help protect large enterprises. The company presents itself as enterprise-focused and hires globally (Singapore, UK, US), offering employee benefits like private health insurance and an ESOP. Its careers and privacy/cookie notices indicate an emphasis on security, compliance, and enterprise-grade protection for customers.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain backend services and data pipelines that support our backend system which powers our cybersecurity platform - the platform we use to identify vulnerabilities in large enterprises. • Architect scalable microservices and APIs to handle large volumes of data relating to millions of assets belonging to our clients and how they can be compromised. • Work closely with frontend engineers and product teams to integrate backend systems with the user interface and reporting layers. • Continuously improve our systems, from deployment to monitoring, as we scale rapidly.

🎯 Requirements

• 5 or more years of experience. • Strong experience designing and maintaining mission-critical backend applications using microservices architecture. • Proficiency in working with both relational (e.g. Postgres) and non-relational (e.g. MongoDB) databases. • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, event sourcing, and managing asynchronous data processing at scale. • Comfortable writing clean, testable code and applying automated testing practices. • Experience working with data workflows and asynchronous task queues (e.g. Kafka, Airflow, etc). • Demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced startup environments, showing a strong sense of ownership and initiative. • A can-do attitude with the willingness to take on ambiguous challenges, wear multiple hats, and drive projects forward independently. • Experience working with large-scale data processing or streaming systems, especially for security analysis (bonus). • Familiarity with data engineering tasks like building ETL pipelines and schema versioning (bonus). • Exposure to DevOps practices and CI/CD tooling for automated deployment and monitoring (bonus). • Familiarity in Cloud-based services & able to leverage Cloud-based services as part of service deployments (bonus). • Prior work in an Agile, DevOps-driven engineering culture (bonus).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation - we believe that hard work, skills and ambition should be fairly compensated. • Meaningful role in a company - You will be a key and early contributor to a fast-growing cybersecurity business that helps protect some of the world's largest enterprises. • The best tools and powerful kit - we enable you with the tools to effectively fulfil your role. • Endless opportunities – we are in a high-growth phase of our journey, and plan to promote from within as we scale. • Work with cyber security experts – we are solving cutting-edge industry-wide cyber security challenges with some of the world’s most advanced organisations.