Senior Backend Lead

Senior Backend Leads are key members of our engineering team, building the back end services and infrastructure essential to our clients' products. Over time, we expect you to grow by learning and practicing technical ownership, promoting best practices in coding and architecture, collaborating with and mentoring other members of the engineering team, and becoming a vocal advocate of our engineering forward culture.
Senior Backend Leads are key members of our engineering team, building the back end services and infrastructure essential to our clients' products. Over time, we expect you to grow by learning and practicing technical ownership, promoting best practices in coding and architecture, collaborating with and mentoring other members of the engineering team, and becoming a vocal advocate of our engineering forward culture.
Our clients rely on us to build and grow their businesses and we are committed to building fast and scalable products that people love, all while using best practices and the latest technologies.
Who We Are
Utility is an end-to-end mobile app and digital platform agency, focusing on designing and engineering today's mobile-first businesses and new ventures. Founded by digital leaders from companies like Major League Baseball and McCann Erickson, Utility is built by folks that have been on the other side of the table. We treat every project as if it was our own, from startup ventures to blue chip brands.
Why Utility

• We build award-winning apps that make a large impact
• We are one of the most diverse and inclusive agencies in NYC
• Family-style culture and work-life balance
• We are a lean, tenacious machine powered by the sharpest, most passionate people in the industry

The Ideal Candidate

• Develop and maintain key internal and public-facing back end systems
• Design scalable architectures for high performance web and mobile delivery
• Engineer simple and elegant solutions to challenging problems
• Design and engineer secure RESTful APIs
• Estimate and track tasks using Agile methodologies
• Plan and lead major projects from start to finish
• Are enthusiastic about learning and applying new cutting edge technologies.
• Take ownership of your own work.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and are able to convey technical solutions

Senior Backend Leads have the freedom to create products people love. You'll collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to build large-scale products for well-known brands. We look for team members who advocate for software engineering best practices and inspire their team to continuously learn and improve. Working at Utility isn't just about your skills. We value people who are kind and work well on a team.
If this sounds appealing so far, we'd love to talk to you!