Backend Software Engineer

🏢 Asana · 📍 Reykjavík · 💼 hybrid

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer with a passion for learning and working on systems. You will work with a world-class team of engineers on deploying and operating existing systems, and building new ones for challenges that are unique to our problem space. You will have a unique opportunity to design, develop, and operate services and frameworks that power Asana.

This role is based in our Reykjavik office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements.

What you’ll achieve

Design, build, and iterate on frameworks that influence all aspects of the Asana product.
Partner with other frameworks and product engineering teams to identify opportunities to enable teams to develop faster at Asana, and help the company achieve our goals faster.
Analyze complex systems to uncover issues, root causes and areas of improvement
Champion code quality and best practices, setting a standard through example and frameworks
Develop new APIs that balance usability with the capability to support Asana’s feature-rich web application
Write clean, beautiful code, striving to leave it in a better state than you found it
Experience growth through opportunities to stretch and learn, enhancing your development
Collaborate with a world-class engineering team to build new functionality through intuitive building blocks.

About you

3+ years of BE experience working in large, well-maintained codebases writing and shipping production code
Ability to learn quickly and transition seamlessly between different areas of a complex codebase
Sound autonomous judgment when balancing moving quickly with producing quality, long-term maintainable code
Focus on establishing and spreading high quality software engineering patterns
Familiarity with React/GraphQL ecosystem, TypeScript (preferred)
Seeking an empowering environment where you and your teammates support each other's growth and development
Demonstrated curiosity about AI tools and emerging technologies, with a w

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