.We believe that for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion to thrive in the workplace all individuals must feel Safe, Valued, and Respected. And that the only way to accomplish this is if the business model places these priorities first. Which is exactly what we do each day.EQUALSTRUE is a Female, LGBTQ, and Minority led virtual-first startup that welcomes technologists from all lifestyles, theologies, cultures, disabilities, and backgrounds. And seeks to empower people with the freedom to own their career path within a safe merit-driven transparent culture where everyone is treated fairly.So if you are looking for a new career partner that is remote-first, has a social mission, and only works with companies that share our valuesthen let's talk about our **Senior Backend Designer **role today. Here is what we can tell you about this position:THE WORK- Produces code that is clear/simple, modular, loosely coupled, of low complexity, cleanly documented, meets requirements and is testable.- Frequently contributes to and reviews code in important, core and complex components and frameworks.-- Demonstrates strong ability and influences others to choose proper off the shelf software frameworks and libraries when needed. Identifies complexities that can be broken out into reusable components for the team.-- Understands the testing philosophy and approach, writes unit tests as well as higher level tests. Uses quality metrics to identify gaps. Works within the team to recommend solutions. Frequently uses performance, integration, unit testing and considers load testing strategies.-- Designs, documents, and builds simple and scalable solutions for complex problems with elegant and reusable architectures resulting in modular services, functions, or workflows that are resilient, maintainable, easy to monitor and pioneer best practices for engineers. Demonstrates strong ability to and influences others to build, reuse existing or license new technology components.-- Requires an individual to maintain the ability to work in an environment with PHI / PII dataNEEDED EXPERTISE- Bachelor's of Computer Science, or equivalent combination of education and experience, professional certification preferred.-- Multiple years experience in backend software development, including designing and developing data pipelines and APIs.-- Experience in data-driven design, database architecture, and implementing ETL/ELT pipelines with a focus on loose coupling and end-to-end data lifecycle management.-- Must have working knowledge of distributed systems & microservices architectures.-- Must have working knowledge of highly scalable distributed and cloud native databases.-- Strong knowledge in writing SQL queries, stored procedures, and user defined functions.-- Some experience in Python.-- Experience in standard Git process, and working knowledge of using CI/CD pipelines for automating testing and deploys.-- Nice to have working knowledge of Snowflake and Apache Kafka