Senior Back End Developer

Our story:

Blackpanda is Asia\'s premier cyber security incident response firm, hyper-focused on digital forensics and cyber crisis response. Our team consists of an elite cadre of risk and security experts from various specializations, military special forces, intelligence, forensics, and law enforcement. We are also a fully distributed team across the globe and will be there 24/7 to help if a breach occurs.

In addition, Blackpanda successfully closed a $15m USD Series A co-led by global leading private equity firms Primavera Venture Partners and Gaw Capital Partners.

What are we looking for:
Technology is at the heart of what Blackpanda does, and is looking for a seasoned back-end engineer who thrives on daily hands-on projects, while excited by the opportunity to grow into leading a tight-knit, diverse engineering team, building class-leading architecture and security products. Blackpanda is at an exciting stage, envisioning what cyber risk protection can look like in the APAC region, and you will be building that future. This role suits someone who is excited by the prospect of building applications, architecture and products from the ground up or from a POC with the most appropriate technologies available today. A background in cyber security is a plus, but not required. However, an excellent grasp of building secure web-based applications and architecture is expected. You will be led by the CTO and expected to be able to synthesize a business problem into an engineered solution. Blackpanda is building a cross-functional engineering team where all members should be excited by the prospect of solving problems first through planning and dialogue, and only after this moving to code. The ability to learn new processes and plan new system architecture from high-level requirements is a must. An existing solid understanding of RESTful and/or GraphQL-based API architecture and best practices - especially about API security, is important. About the role:
Cash: The Salary is USD$108,000, SGD$134,640 SGD, or HKD$830,000 depending on the country of employment . No bonuses or commissions. Rewards:Blackpanda further rewards employees with automatic participation in our company ESOP and generous allocations for all staff. The successful candidate will work closely with and reports to the Chief Technology Officer Responsibilities and duties:
Leading developer across at least one (maximum two) of three products being built across the next 12 months, spanning three different technology verticals. Blackpanda is building exciting technology both for internal use and for external-facing customer engagement. Communicating with business stakeholders from time to time to help advise on strategy, according to the likely difficulty of solving the technology challenge. Engage with code review of your peers. Have the opportunity to lead engineering initiatives or discovery to ascertain the best path forwards before diving into writing production code. Shipping robust, maintainable, tested code - often You will see your work used by thousands of customers within a short period of time. Work closely with the CTO to evaluate platforms - test driving an API or working methodically through the documentation to understand if it will solve the business need. Qualifications and experience:
Prioritize test-driven, elegant, maintainable solutions, aided by appropriate terse or detailed documentation, whichever makes the most sense per case. Natural curiosity and you thrive on learning new things. Value balance in your life and know when to call it a day so that you come back fresh the next morning with class-leading solutions. We do not promote sloppy code and as such, we guard against overworked, tired developers, but you must also be good at managing your own time to achieve this. Passion for efficiency and collaboration, with a history of establishing great relationships with your engineering peers. You understand that there are significant costs associated with compute and storage on an ongoing basis of modern security engineering, and understand how to help keep these manageable with the help of your team. Comfortable presenting to a group over video calls periodically, describing how a solution is arrived at and works in layman\'s terms. Business fluent written and verbal communication skills in English. Conversational fluency and higher in multiple languages are a plus but not required. Technical qualifications and experience:
At least five years working in a professional capacity as an engineer, ideally with an external customer product focus. This time should not include any years of study or pure \'hobby project\' time. You have to lead the development of, or significantly contribute to significant products or tools that are used daily either by customers or internal teams and form a critical function of the organization or primary revenue stream. Extremely proficient in Node (Typescript) and comfortable reading and writing Ruby(Rails) or Python. Alternatively, additional experience to Node being proficient in a front-end framework such as Vue. Extremely knowledgeable in building and integrating with RESTful API architecture, demonstrable GraphQL experience is an advantage. Familiar with at least one containerized deployment platform, such as Google Cloud Run, Amazon ECS, Azure, and or directly with K8s. Experience using and maintaining CI/CD pipeline infrastructure. Minimal maintenance, such as Github actions experience, is a plus. Bachelor\'s degree in a related field and / or a clear history of engineering in a team-based, professional capacity for the stated experience years (5+) If you consider yourself a full-stack developer, please apply only to this role or our Front-end role, depending on what you consider your stronger side.

What we offer:
This is a remote-first position. With our \'Work From Anywhere\' policy, the successful candidate can work from anywhere globally, subject to alignment with business and operational requirements, and being available for a minimum 6 hours between 9am and 6pm Singaporean time zone to sync with the Tribe. 40 days paid leave per year inclusive of public holidays, which may be taken at the discretion of the employee subject to compliance with our Leave Policy and the approval of their manager. Our leave practices take into account the global arrangement of personnel with differing public holidays and the requirement of the company to be on stand-by as a crisis response unit 24/7/365. Work-life balance - no scheduled internal meetings on Fridays, unless absolutely necessary. Enrollment in the company corporate health plan (where available) or USD$100 per month allowance. Opportunities for travel, onsite team meet-up, and training opportunities. Continuous learning:
Blackpanda will sponsor the cost of no less than one (1) training course each calendar year. The topic of the training will be your choice, subject to approval by your manager, and will be no greater than USD$5,000 annually. Declamation:

Blackpanda is committed to building a culturally diverse company, and we value a broad set of opinions in our team. As we grow, we are looking to build a team with a range of viewpoints at its core, and we encourage applications from all genders as you identify (X/F/M) and minority candidates. Blackpanda

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