Backend Developer

Founded in 2011 by the team behind ICQ, Dotomi and Jajah—and backed by Peter Thiel, (via Founders Fund), Eric Schmidt (via Innovation endeavors) and Jerry Yang, AppCard disrupts traditional retail sales with its global platform for data-driven marketing. We analyze, target, and engage your customers to increase their lifetime value.

The AppCard Dashboard offers brick and mortar businesses greater insight into the health of their business than ever before. AppCard’s patented technology captures 100% of item-level transaction data, in real time, and works with any POS system. AppCard delivers actionable insight to business owners via the AppCard Dashboard, where users have access to over 100 reports detailing transactions and product sales across locations.

By adding an AppCard Rewards Program, business owners are able to also capture customer identities and associate them with item-level transaction data. Combining customer identities with real-time transaction data allows business owners to truly know their customers, and to provide a personalized, customer-centric experience. AppCard’s data-driven marketing campaigns automatically deliver the right message, to the right customer, at the right time, via SMS, email, or in-app push notifications.

🤓 As a Backend Developer, the company expects you to perform the following tasks:

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable software solutions in collaboration with your engineering peers.
• Participate in design and architecture reviews.
• Troubleshoot, identify, and resolve high-level systemic issues across platforms.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with customer success, support, and business teams to deliver on company goals.
• Bring in new technologies and frameworks as you see fit.

✨ You are the person they are looking for if you have....

• A Rich Background: 3+ years of hands-on experience in developing high-performance distributed systems. Your journey has equipped you with best coding practices..
• Technical Mastery: Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals. Expert in Python, with a strong ability to select and integrate optimal tools and technologies. Experienced in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS). Required experience with relational databases (e.g., PG). Knowledge of Java is a plus.
• Proactive Problem Solver: Demonstrated capability in developing and implementing efficient tools, processes, and methodologies to address challenges and enhance efficiency. You're skilled at identifying and resolving potential bottlenecks efficiently. Whenever you raise issues you bring along possible solutions as well.
• Independence and Initiative: The ability to lead projects from inception to delivery, demonstrating your capacity to work autonomously and produce solutions that meet or exceed project expectations.
• A Commitment to Excellence: An unwavering belief in the importance of documentation, recognizing that clear, comprehensive documentation is as crucial as the code itself.