Senior Backend Engineer (C++, Go, Rust)

Sonalake is a software partnering company that helps our clients realise their product roadmaps. Product design and engineering are at the heart of our business. Our engineering teams work with clients right across the stack; UX, UI design, frontend, backend, analytics, infrastructure, operations - and everything else that goes into delivering great products.

We thrive on variety and are highly adaptable. Our teams are exposed to domains as varied as telecom billing, ad tech, securities-based lending, travel tech analytics, and many more.

Innovation is central to our mission; anticipating future client needs, analysing emerging technologies and developing new products and services.

We are now seeking to grow our backend development capability. That’s where you come in!

You will

• Play an integral role by developing innovative and highly scalable services to support desktop and mobile applications.
• Proactively contributing ideas for new features and identifying areas for improvement.
• Collaborating with mobile development and product team members to design, develop, and deploy highly scalable experience APIs and services.
• Deliver on time and be accountable for your team and stakeholders.
• Writing clean, tested, and well-documented code.

You may be a fit for this role if you

• 3+ years of professional experience in the design of complex identity systems
• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures
• Experience with large-scale distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL)
• Ability to decompose engineering problems and work with a team in solving them
• Familiarity with authentication protocols (OAUTH2, OIDC, WebAuthN, CTP, U2F, KERBEROS)
• A plus if you have experience with functional programming
• A plus if you have experience with Rust & formal verification such as TLA+

We take pride in being a people-oriented company. Openness and opportunity are really important to us. We build teams that span from experienced leaders to bright graduates and work to develop all of us within our coaching culture.