Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sequencing is a company focused on personalized health experiences, and they are seeking a Senior Backend TypeScript Engineer to build and maintain high performance backend services. The role involves designing and optimizing backend systems, integrating services, and ensuring reliable and secure data handling for users.
Responsibilities
- Design build and maintain performant backend services in TypeScript that power our core personalized experiences
- Build and grow scalable infrastructure APIs and event driven services that deliver data driven features to users
- Support and optimize production ready backend systems so they stay fast and dependable under load
- Integrate and manage services such as PostgreSQL MySQL AWS SQS and Centrifugo in the backend
- Make systems reliable secure and observable so people can trust their DNA data is safe
- Own and drive end to end feature development with a strong eye on user experience
- Write clean reliable code with performance and maintainability in mind from the start
- Champion clean code technical excellence and continuous improvement across the team
- Debug test and performance tune across services to catch problems before users feel them
- Maintain modernize and migrate legacy code so older systems keep up with new demand
- Take ownership of complex problems and drive them to a clear working solution
Skills
- 5+ years of backend development experience
- Expert with TypeScript and comfortable owning production backend services
- Experience with functional programming
- Deep hands on experience with PostgreSQL MySQL and service based architectures
- Strong debugging testing and performance tuning skills
- Able to work independently while collaborating closely with key teammates
- Customer driven with a passion for building systems that deliver exceptional experiences
- Familiarity with genomics health data or personalization systems
- Experience in startup or fast paced environments
- Experience with Rust
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