Certemy (www.certemy.com) is a leading SaaS platform for professional credentialing organizations. The platform automates application and renewal workflows for professional certification boards, professional associations, state licensing boards, and national regulatory associations. We help our customers eliminate paper — and reduce administrative burdens, and IT costs — while improving organizational efficiency, transparency, and agility. The company has over 250,000 professionals managing their credentials via the platform and is growing rapidly.

Certemy is backed by a leading venture capital company and is led by an experienced team of entrepreneurs who have started up, sold, and taken public previous technology ventures. The company is headquartered in Tarzana, CA and works with a remote team across the United States. We are looking to add a senior level backend software engineer to help us extend the platform and reach of our leading-edge certification & licensing management SaaS platform.

What you’ll do
• Work closely with the engineering and product teams to architect and implement a best practice driven system design supporting business critical operations
• Foster a culture rooted in data driven decision making and operational excellence – define impactful metrics for maintaining distributed systems in production and ensure observability and reporting meets your expectations for tracking those metrics
• Take ownership of the SDLC process from helping iterate on requirements and designing data models to tuning and debugging applications in a cloud production environment
• Develop and expose Certemy platform APIs to third-party systems and integrate with third-party APIs to extend the reach of the Certemy platform to related software systems (including third-party testing providers, learning management systems, payment processors, and association management systems). We’re building an ecosystem around the core platform, and this role will be instrumental in designing the integration architecture
• Build out Certemy’s data processing systems and reporting capabilities to assist stakeholders in generating insights from the massive amounts of data collected via the platform

What you’ll need
• A proven track record of delivering and maintaining software in a production environment
• Strong experience with relational and non-relational database technologies and comfort writing SQL
• Knowledge of relational data modeling, database performance, indexing, and scaling
• Experience developing backend services in Java and/or NodeJS, other backgrounds will be considered if you have a desire to learn the technologies in our stack
• An ability to express complex processes via writing and diagraming
• Experience integrating with third-party systems and APIs
• Experience working on scalable systems handling high concurrency and large data sets
• Experience implementing automated testing (i.e., unit/integration testing)
• Willingness to explore and learn new technologies for a continuous improvement of the Certemy applications

Bonus points

• Experience with cloud native devops architectures (AWS preferred) and knowledge of containerized app deployments (Docker, ECS)
• Experience with non-blocking/reactive programming models
• Experience working on a remote team
• Experience working with APM and log aggregation tools like New Relic//ELK/Datadog, building custom dashboards and leveraging them for monitoring systems

What you’ll get

At Certemy, you’ll work with a talented group of hungry creators looking to re-imagine the credentialing & licensing management industry, while also building an ecosystem on top of the core Certemy platform. We pride ourselves on doing good work and helping our customers do their jobs better. We are results-oriented, look for coworkers who can adapt quickly, and appreciate new ideas founded on data, regardless of source.

We offer top-of-the-line health benefits (medical & dental), a competitive salary, and stock options in a fast-growing private company. Our office is located in Tarzana, CA and this position can be worked remotely from anywhere in the United States.