Backend Engineer
Lever EducationSan Francisco, California, United States
Posted July 24, 2019
Full Time
About the Company
Lever Education is a cloud-based EdTech-as-a-Service provider that disrupts the EdTech industry with innovative technology. The company offers comprehensive solutions for startups, focusing on scalability, accessibility, and user-friendly interfaces to enhance educational experiences. Lever Education's key value proposition lies in its ability to provide cutting-edge tools at an affordable cost, enabling rapid growth and development in the education sector.
Job Description
We are seeking a Back-End Web Developer to manage data interchange between the server and users. The role involves developing server-side logic, maintaining databases, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness. Integration with front-end elements and a basic understanding of front-end technologies are essential.
Requirements
- Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
- Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors, such as LESS and SASS
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
- Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
- Data migration, transformation, and scripting
- Setup and administration of backups
- Outputting data in different formats
- Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms such as mobile vs desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
