Senior Backend Engineer (SF, New York, or Austin or other remote location considered))

***Please note there is no current or future sponsorship available for this role***. Thank you for your understanding. Senior Backend Engineer Reporting directly to our VP of Engineering, the Senior Backend Engineer will join an existing team of engineering and product talent. Currently a team of 7, soon to be 10, you will almost immediately own shipping a feature. You’ll get to know us, our business, the needs of our users, internally and externally, and we’ll get to know you and help integrate you into the team and company. Because of your 5+ years of Backend Engineering experience, you should see yourself owning a large feature in the first 45 days and your evolution on the team should include moving toward a tech lead role. Driving large epics, building the team from an engineering hygiene and culture perspective, best practices, hiring and on-boarding new talent - should be responsibilities that excite you and be part of your existing skill set. In order to be successful in this role you are consistently described as collaborative, a leader, great communicator, both verbally and in writing, and you deliver high quality code daily and lead by example. You don’t shy away from presenting, whether to leadership or at our weekly all-hands. You’re always looking for ways to improve and you understand that getting involved with the product discovery process is key to your success, and AlphaFlow’s. Deliverables you'll be measured on: • Design, implement, test, and deploy backend services with high SLAs • Own technical decisions for our backend APIs • Effectively write and present technical design documents • Actively contribute high quality code on a daily basis • Work with peers on the engineering team, reviewing code and helping others improve • Collaborate closely with the product, design and engineering teams - participating in daily standups, sprint planning and acceptance Skills and Experience that will help set you up for success in this role • Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs • Experience working within small teams & in fast moving environments • Experience in server-side programming languages (e.g. Go, Python, Java, C++)Deep experience with relational databases • Clear, concise and persuasive communication style that motivates and enables action • Outstanding attention to detail, written/oral, analytical skills, and organizational practices • Experience prioritizing and managing priorities with internal teams and stakeholders • At least 5 years professional experience with the above content Nice to haves • Experience with Go in a production environment • Previous startup experience through periods of high growth • Experience architecting and managing secure, scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes/Terraform/GCP Access. Transparency. Technology. Founded in 2015, AlphaFlow is a technology-driven investment manager providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans. We make the $75 billion fix-and-flip industry accessible to institutional investors. With the recent launch of our new platform, TITAN, we’ve opened up our institutional platform to smaller investors. As a result of leading with technology and data analytics AlphaFlow is able to provide transparency & speed at a rate our competitors can’t. We partner with non-bank real estate lenders who provide 6-12 month bridge loans on single-family and small multifamily properties by purchasing their loans thereby helping them grow their businesses. AlphaFlow uses software to streamline and automate today’s manual workflow and our engineering team is constantly developing simple and elegant solutions to further automate a manually intensive industry. AlphaFlow is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Apply tot his job