Backend Engineer

Elevar, recently acquired by Buxton, is a leading SaaS company empowering online merchants to build a robust data foundation. We simplify server-side event tracking, providing merchants with actionable insights to fuel smarter decisions, accelerate growth, and achieve their goals. This exciting acquisition combines Elevar's expertise in online analytics with Buxton's retail analytics prowess, creating a powerhouse in the industry.

The Role

Join our dynamic team of 5 engineers as a Backend Engineer and play a pivotal role in enhancing our product. You will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, constantly improve your craft, and contribute to a product that is used by thousands of businesses around the world. Our application utilizes the following technologies:

• Typescript
• React
• Node
• Python
  
  

About Our App

Our app is split into two pieces: a user-facing app and a data pipeline.

• The user-facing app is a React app that uses a Python backend (API first). It provides our customers with the ability to manage their accounts, configure their tracking, and view reports
• The data pipeline is made up of serverless functions that receive thousands of hits per second. It enriches, filters, and transforms our merchants' data into payloads that various marketing channels can ingest
  
  

What You'll be Doing

• Collaborating with a fully remote team to enhance our product
• Contributing with the team and product manager to shape the product roadmap
• Pushing code changes as pull requests and participating in review, testing, and deployments
  
  

How we work

• Our workload is divided into releases that vary in length depending on the work contained in each release. Most of our releases take about a month to complete
• Each release includes a maintenance cycle where app improvements and refactors take place
• The release is a time of focus. Distractions are limited during this time
• Our application is all contained in a monorepo so that types and logic can be shared across workspaces
  
  
  

Requirements

• Experience with Node and Python
• Experience with a strongly typed language (TypeScript is a plus)
• Ability to work in a unix environment
• Understanding of serverless technologies
• Willingness to learn
• Open and transparent communication
• US Resource with the ability to work preferably in/around the EST time zone
• US work authorization (green card required)
  
  

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with high-throughput systems and/or data pipelines
• Experience with data engineering (Batch vs streaming processors, BigQuery, etc)
  
  
  

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• Training & Development
  
  

Here at (Buxton), we believe strongly that we benefit from diversity and encourage applicants from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We value inclusion and welcome diverse viewpoints. Upon hire, a successful background check is required. Unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor work visas at this time.