🚂Backend Engineer
Quantified Citizen
Software Engineering
Canada
Posted on Friday, June 2, 2023
Backend Engineer
We're looking a full-time Backend Engineer to join our backend services team. The backend team is responsible for the REST APIs, data processing services and managing our underlying production infrastructure. They will work closely with our mobile and web teams on project requirements and with the CTO and VP Engineering on systems design and implementation.
The backend team is small so there are a lot of opportunities to influence design, direction, and culture. It also means the team takes on the additional responsibility of maintaining our staging and production infrastructure so any and all devops experience is a valuable asset, particularly with regards to large-scale, multi-tenant systems or significant experience with PaaS (AWS, GCP, Azure or similar).
We expect the role to grow or adapt along with the needs of the company and towards your interests and strengths.
Location
Remote - US & Canada
Metro Vancouver or the GTA preferred for timezone reasons, but not required.
Timeframe
Open for applications
Role Type
Full-time
If you're interested in applying and prefer to show rather than tell, take a look at our quick qc-apply exercise on github (~20 minutes).
About Us
Quantified Citizen is a Seed-stage mobile health research startup (featured on Joe Rogan) aimed at disrupting the unnecessary cost and time of clinical research by democratizing the process, and enabling anyone to design & deploy clinical grade health research studies to engaged participants who receive personalized health insights.
We launched our flagship mobile research app and have had over 51,000 iOS app installs with a 4.7 star rating. Among our initial studies, we've partnered with world-famous mycologist Paul Stamets on a UBC research ethics approved 17,000+ participant correlational study on the effects of microdosing psychedelic substances on cognitive performance and mental health. We published two papers in Nature Scientific Reports (including the #3 most downloaded paper published in 2021). We've also partnered with award-winning cinematographer Louie Schwartzberg on a 6,500+ participant Gratitude Study. Stay tuned for a variety of new public studies in development.
Help us bring health research to everyone!
About the Position
Build and maintain one or more of the background services (as appropriate)
Work closely with the CTO and VP Engineering on infrastructure design and maintenance
Collaborate with teammates on best practices and team culture
Communicate proactively using Notion, Github, & Slack to help maintain our effective use of meeting time
Write clear and actionable work tickets
Explore new and creative ways of doing things (e.g. automation, new approaches, featurizing multiple scripts into one script with options)
Attend our weekly, scheduled video calls every week for individual updates and team discussion
In collaboration with other teams, be an advocate for challenges that impact the backend and an ally in the universal melee against chaos
This is a remote job, even for employees In Vancouver and Toronto. You are free to work where you work best. You will be expected to regularly overlap 2-4 hours of your workday with the Vancouver workday (PST/PDT) to interact with our core team.
What We Expect from You
Operate with a privacy and security oriented mindset
Proficient in writing Python, Ruby or Elixir code to solve complex problems
Productive on the command-line for development and devops tasks
Experience working on a collaborative team that may have involved:
Participating in the full development life-cycle
Health and privacy-related regulatory compliance, like HIPAA or GDPR
Being a team lead or contributing to project organization
Implementing an automated continuous integration or deployment process
Having a positive work environment that you can tell us about
Familiarity with one or more of the following is an asset:
Platform services like AWS, Azure or GCP
Statistical analysis, discrete computation or machine learning
The practical challenges associated with working on very large datasets
Operational concerns like availability, reliability, and predictive resourcing
Comfortable working with underdefined requirements and possibly as an opportunity to directly contribute to the success of the product
Please note: Preference is given to candidates that have an interest or background in psychology (or similar), mental health, microdosing, health & wellness or what Quantified Citizen working on in general.
How to Apply
Complete form below: (scroll to get to bottom and click "Submit"
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Hiring Statement
Quantified Citizen is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.
If you're unsure whether your skills and experience would be a fit for this position, email us anyway so we can figure it out together. At the very least, we'll be pleased to answer any of your questions and offer any constructive feedback we may have (but only if we're asked).
Updated: @August 31, 2021