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title: Back End Engineer
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desc: As a back end engineer, your mission is to create and maintain useful services. You'll work with data in various forms and transform it into meaningful information.
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# Back End Engineer
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### About the company
Simple Systems is a software company.
Our mission is to deliver simple solutions for complex problems.
### About the job
As a back end engineer, your mission is to create and maintain useful services.
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You'll work with data in various forms and transform it into meaningful information.
Project leaders will come to you with complex problems that need simple solutions.
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#### Expectations
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* Reduce [complexity ](https://simplesystems.tech/blog/complexity )
* Work with project leaders to gain understanding of their vision
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* Support front end engineers by delivering the information they need
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* Own the code you write
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* Review code from other engineers
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* Suggest improvements throughout codebase
* Be open to suggestions for your code
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#### Competencies
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* Ownership mentality: Take responsibility for what you do.
* Clear communication: Software engineering is a team process. Be able to communicate with teammates.
* Constant learning: Keep up to date on technologies.
* Lazy programming: Think before you code.
* Testing: Unit tests are a must. Testing logic is important too.
* Documentation: Other engineers should be able to pick up your code without hassle.
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* Currently, we use Go, gRPC, and SQL, but are more concerned with fundamentals than specific technology.
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### Interested?
Email a resume and brief description about yourself to jobs@simplesystems.tech.
