Backend Engineer / Architect

Scapic is looking for an experienced Back-end engineer/architect to join our exciting, rapidly growing startup. This role has the potential to evolve with the company as we grow. You will be building the foundations of Augmented and Virtual Reality tools.We're looking for a seasoned web developer who wants to help us build and maintain the back-end services to our VR/AR platform. Our backend web stack is MongoDB/PostgreSQL, Node.JS running on AWS. You'll be working on the web service infrastructure that holds up our entire application.To that end, our Engineering team looks for experienced, smart, and well-grounded individuals who: can thrive in an environment that is fast-paced but not brutally so; are bleeding-edge but well-versed in solid startup engineering principles (clean code and an inclination toward shipping product). Our team members are likely to say that their contribution makes a difference and their thinking matters to their teammates and to the company’s leadership.Our goal as a business is to provide the most complete, effective, and fun way for people to experience things when they are not in the same physical space. Our goal as an employer is to provide the same, in the real world, every day, for the great folks we hire!=========Who we are: A virtual and Augmented reality software company A team that is passionate about the future of VR=========What we believe: VR/AR will be for everyone We should embrace everything that is great about the 2D web That we can and will invent the 3D web =========This role is for you if: You're not joking when you use the phrase "web scale." You've got the battle scars from helping scale up the software of a rapidly growing web application. You know the many double-edged swords of web frameworks, and take care in using them.=========What it's like to be in engineering @Scapic: -We are forward thinking by design, and we follow the Git Flow method -We require code reviews before pull requests are merged to mainline -We code push daily, sometimes multiple times per day -We work closely with customer service, operations, and marketing to ensure that we're putting the customer first and nothing else=========