Position: Back End Engineer
Company: Cold Start
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Who We Are at Cold Start**

Cold Start is a single LP, industry agnostic venture building studio working to bring visionary ideas to reality. We believe that the opportunity to create industry defining, tech-forward ventures is bigger than ever today. Our leadership team comes from Elemy, Lyft, Doordash, Uber, and has raised capital from General Catalyst, Founders Fund, 8VC,Tiger Global, and many more. Cold Start’s portfolio companies have created 1.1 bn in enterprise value in less than 24 months.

Come join some of the country's best operators and builders to make an impact that will last generations.

**About The Role**

To date, we’ve built companies that are positively impacting thousands of lives, including:
- Helping children with Autism receive high quality care
- Providing therapy and medication to people with mental health struggles 
- Supporting whole families through the difficult process of end-of-life

And this is just the beginning.

To continue being successful we need to invest in our platform which allows us to build great products at speed, iterate quickly and adapt as we grow. That means bringing together some of the most talented people in the industry, including you.

As a Backend Engineer at Cold Start, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team building products that solve real-world problems and shipping solutions that people love. On a daily basis, you’ll:
- Use your technical expertise to help shape solutions to complex problems
- Write high-quality code that is reliable, maintainable, and reusable
- Continuously advocate for good practices across the company

In this role, you’ll not only focus on building great products and solving immediate problems at hand, but you’ll also make sure that we’re investing in the long-term success of the company.

**What You’ll Do**

- Design, build and continuously improve products that our customers use on a daily basis
- Deliver high-quality, well-structured and modular code which can be easily reused across other products within the company
- Ensure that all the code you write is reliable and well-tested
- Work closely with other cross-functional partners to help shape the product and the solution being built. Get involved early in the process and provide input based on your technical expertise
- Be an advocate for good-practices and continuously push the standards in the team higher
- Improve our development process by introducing new practices or by building new tools
- Create valuable documentation that can help other team members in the future

**What You’ll Need**

- Professional experience building backend applications using any modern programming language such as Kotlin, Java, Python, TypeScript etc.
- Willingness to keep up with current standard methodologies and to try, learn and adapt to new technologies and programming languages
- Experience working with modern databases such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB etc.
- Experience working in a Test Driven Environment ideally with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CICD)
- Willingness to work on greenfield projects with the ability to take full ownership of your work, proactively ask questions about product ideas and positively challenge the team to ensure we’re always building the right solutions

Bonus Points If You Have

We are looking for Engineers who are willing to continuously improve our tools and learn new technologies. However, experience working with the following technologies/frameworks will be considered a plus:
- Kotlin
- React
- NodeJS
- Github and Github Actions
- AWS
         - EC2
         - ECS/EKS
         - RDS
         - Cloudwatch
         - Cognito
         - S3

The above job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position.

Cold Start is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to providing all employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We celebrate diversity and welcome applicants from every background and life experience.