Remote Backend Engineer

Description:

• Elevar, recently acquired by Buxton, is a leading SaaS company that empowers online merchants to build a robust data foundation.
• The company simplifies server-side event tracking, providing merchants with actionable insights to fuel smarter decisions, accelerate growth, and achieve their goals.
• The role is for a Backend Engineer to join a dynamic team of 5 engineers and enhance the product.
• The application utilizes technologies such as Typescript, React, Node, and Python.
• The app consists of a user-facing React app with a Python backend and a data pipeline made up of serverless functions that handle thousands of hits per second.
• Responsibilities include collaborating with a fully remote team, contributing to the product roadmap, pushing code changes, and participating in review, testing, and deployments.
• The workload is divided into monthly releases, which include maintenance cycles for app improvements and refactors.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have experience with Node and Python.
• Experience with a strongly typed language is required, with TypeScript being a plus.
• Ability to work in a Unix environment is necessary.
• Understanding of serverless technologies is required.
• Candidates must be detail-oriented and willing to learn.
• Open and transparent communication skills are essential.
• Candidates must be a US resource with the ability to work preferably in/around the EST time zone.
• US work authorization (green card required) is mandatory.
• Bonus points for familiarity with high-throughput systems and/or data pipelines and experience with data engineering.

Benefits:

• Benefits and perks at Buxton include eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
• Health benefits, company-paid long-term disability, voluntary short-term disability, company-paid Life and AD&D insurance, and voluntary supplemental Life insurance are effective the first day of the month following the hire date.
• Free Virtual Medical Visits for employees and dependents enrolled in a medical plan are provided.
• A quarterly enrollment 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with a 50% company match up to 6% of the employee contribution is available, with 100% vesting in only 3 years.
• Generous front-loaded Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays are offered.
• An Employee Assistance Program is also included.
• Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.