Remote l Canada Based l Full Time
About the role
At Minerva, we’re transforming compliance through cutting-edge AI. Our platform automates anti-money laundering (AML) screening and investigations, enabling financial institutions and fintechs to streamline their workflows, reduce false positives, and focus on what truly matters: mitigating risk.
As a Senior Backend Developer I, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our backend systems. You will have the opportunity to work on new and exciting projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to the overall success of our company. This position is ideal for a fast learner with a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals who is looking to take on new challenges and responsibilities.
What you will do:
- Collaborate with your team members, product and engineering leaders to design robust, scalable, and maintainable backend systems.
- Analyze technical problems, identify solutions, and effectively communicate your ideas to the team.
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
- Identify and adopt software development best practices and processes that make sense for your development team; stay on top of updates, new releases, alternative software; recognize and continuously reduce technical debt.
- Monitor and optimize backend performance and ensure the scalability and reliability of our systems.
- Drive detailed project definition, technical design, cross-functional alignment, estimation, in addition to task break-down, delivery, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Take an active role in growing the team, partner with your manager to improve the processes that support team development and efficiency.
What we’re looking for:
- 5+ years of experience as a backend or full-slack software developer.
- Solid CS fundamentals, proficiency in Go and Node.js (must have skills).
- Experience with C++ is highly desirable
- Strong understanding of backend best practices and concepts, patterns, data structures, and databases.
- Experience building distributed systems and applications, real-time, scalable web services, APIs, scaling systems in a service oriented architecture.
- Familiarity with deploying infrastructure components on AWS.