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title: Back End Engineer
icon: settings
desc: As a back end engineer, your mission is to create and maintain useful services.
You'll work with project leaders to solve complex problems.
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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.
You'll work with project leaders to solve complex problems.

### Expectations
* Reduce [complexity](https://simplesystems.tech/blog/complexity)
* Work with project leaders to gain understanding of their vision
* Support front end engineers in getting the data they need
* Own the code you write
* Review code from other back end engineers
* Suggest improvements throughout codebase
* Be open to suggestions for your code

### Competencies
* 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.
* Currently, we use Go, but are more concerned with fundamentals than specific technology.

### Interested?
Email a resume and brief description about yourself to jobs@simplesystems.tech.