Showwcase

Showwcase is a professional network built for developers. We help developers represent themselves holistically, join a community of like-minded others, and find new work opportunities.

The world is in the midst of an accelerated transition towards a digital-first future where every company is becoming a tech company. The resulting outcome is that the demand for developers is now at its highest ever and the number of people learning programming skills is accelerating rapidly. In fact, Microsoft estimates the number of coders to be at 200 million by 2025 - 4X what it is today!

Generalised and large internet platforms can’t be everything to everyone. There is no community and features can never be built with focus around developers. We believe in community-based platforms and want to build for that.

Elite

We’re glad you have interest in joining our Elite Collective. The Elite Collective is a community comprised of senior and experienced developers. Being a member gives you access to our private communities, in-person events, and most importantly jobs and projects curated for Elite.

Showwcase works with many partner companies to help build their developer teams to work on projects. As an Elite, you’ll get access to these full-time job opportunities with better compensation and career growth. We do all the hard work of finding you opportunities so you can focus on what you do best, building products and services. If at any time your project nears completion or your role at a given company is no longer needed, we find you the opportunity within weeks!

How does it work

First, you’ll need to create a Showwcase profile. Once you’re set up, apply to one of our Elite roles according to your skill: React, Flutter, Go etc. We review and if you’re a good fit for Elite, we’ll invite you to come call with us, do a few skill assessments, and some live interviews. This should take a few hours at max! Once done and successful, you join our Elite collective and get all its benefits.

Why join Elite?

We believe the traditional way of looking for jobs is broken. Developers have to complete skill assessments over and over again for every company we apply to, we need to submit at least 5 links to represent who we are (LinkedIn, Resume, Github, Blog, Portfolio), and companies are terrible at responding to developers even after we’ve completed all the steps. Worse, most of the time the interview process has nothing to do with what we’ll actually be doing on the job! It’s incredibly frustrating. Oh, and doing sales and marketing of who we are to find the right company to hire us is not fun.

As an Elite Collective Member, we do all the heavy lifting for you. We find great opportunities, negotiate salary, and handle contracts with different leading companies and startups around the world and offer them to you to work on. These jobs are full-time roles and you’ll get to work with the modern processes with good pay.

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend systems using a variety of languages, including Node.js, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, etc. You will work closely with our product team to define and implement new features, as well as optimize existing ones. You will also be responsible for mentoring junior engineers and contributing to the overall architecture and technical direction of the company.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain high-performance, scalable and reliable backend systems using Node.js, Java, Python, Ruby, Go, etc.
• Collaborate with product team to define and implement new features
• Optimize existing systems for performance, scalability and reliability
• Write high-quality, maintainable and well-documented code
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical development of the team
• Participate in code reviews and ensure high standards of code quality
• Contribute to the overall architecture and technical direction of the company, including system design and DevOps practices

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least 3 years of experience in software engineering, with a focus on backend development using one or more of the following languages: Node.js, Java, Python, Ruby, or Go
• Strong programming skills in at least one of the aforementioned languages
• Experience with building scalable and reliable backend systems using modern technologies such as microservices, containers, and cloud computing
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB
• Experience with RESTful API design and implementation
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

Good to have

• Experience with distributed systems and message queues (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience with DevOps practices, such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and deployment, and monitoring and logging
• Experience with system design and architecture, including the ability to design and implement highly available and fault-tolerant systems
• Experience with performance tuning and optimization of backend systems