Senior Backend Engineer

Ever since 2014, Morressier has been helping a growing number of scientific and academic societies and publishers harness the power and scalability of the digital world to make scientific research more accessible. We facilitate the connecting of the thinkers and the curious, the inquisitive amongst us, to discover, absorb and collaborate on research. We enable research across our platform from peer review workflows, virtual and hybrid conferencing, research libraries and integrity checks.

As we continue on our Series B hypergrowth we are looking for a Senior/Staff Backend Software Engineer, to join our growing and diverse global team on this exciting journey.

As a Software Engineer at Morressier, you'll be joining one of our cross-functional teams to develop and scale our backend systems. You’ll be aligned to our Enterprise team, focusing on scaling our B2B SaaS solutions to meet our rapidly growing customer base.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing Morressier's backend systems to enable delivering functionality to our web and mobile apps

• Collaborating with Product Managers, Product Designers, QA and other engineers in your team to deliver products that enable early stage research globally

• Mentor and guide less experienced developers, fostering a collaborative learning environment

• Executing effective, scalable and maintainable code, paying attention to detail, accuracy and consistency.

• Planning, building, testing and deploying server-side software, including API/protocol/library development and database design to enable delivering functionality to our web and mobile apps

• Improving and maintaining a secure, scalable and efficient cloud-based infrastructure.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary

• Working at the heart of a passionate, impact-driven team from around the world

• A chance to do meaningful work and further our vision of accelerating scientific breakthroughs and global innovation

• Flexibility & autonomy in how you work

Requirements:

• Deep expertise in Javascript / Typescript and node.js

• 5+ years of relevant work experience as a backend engineer

• Excellent technical problem-solving skills

• Extensive API design and development experience

• Proven experience with system and software integration

• Knowledge of asynchronous messaging patterns like Publish-subscribe

• Hands-on experience with relational databases like PostgreSQL or NoSQL like MongoDB. You know how to design efficient database schemas

• Strong knowledge of application deployments in the cloud using the CI/CD development process

• Proficient in writing clean code

• Effective communication skills

• Experience with cloud platforms like GCP or AWS

• Experience with container technology, we use Docker and Kubernetes (beneficial)

• Ability to own development processes, being resourceful and responsible

*Even if you don't meet all of these requirements, we would still like to hear from you.

Could you be the newest member of our team? Apply now and let’s find out.