Senior Backend Engineer and Backend Guild Master

GrowthHub is a Talent Growth Platform that is designed to empower individuals to continuously grow, professionally, by creating alignment on role-specific professional excellence definitions, highlighting growth opportunities, and providing personalized growth plans.

We’re building the future workforce of AT&T’s Technology organization, while working tightly with domain owners and top management to define what per-role excellence means, leveraging data from development tools to help infer proficiency levels, providing tailored development plans and training & learning material, and harnessing the individuals themselves for their professional and personal development.

You will be a backend developer in the GrowthHub team (50%) as well as Backend guild master in the Israel site (around 400 developers).

Senior Backend Developer Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for the products’ architecture and maintain its performance in challenging circumstances
• Maintain high standards of software quality by establishing best practices
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to plan, design, develop, test and maintain extraordinary features
• Translating requirements into high-quality code
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product
• Collaborating with a team of skilled developers to develop high-traffic, cloud-based applications
• Participating in code reviews to maintain code quality and sharing best practices with the team
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, promoting continuous learning and improvement within the team

What does it mean to be a Backend guild master?

• Develop content items (internal and external meetups, blogs, workshops and internal posts) with developers from all business units
• Mentor and support developers with their professional and personal growth during the internal sessions or blogs – know to handle each one differently and assess what help they need
• Define the path forward in terms of technology and knowledge – what is important for our developers to know? Which areas needs to be investigated?
• Build new types of activities and events
• Document software patterns, best practices and other items
• Build the guilds brand in the organization and in the Israel industry
• Constantly look for ways to improve knowledge sharing and collaboration between developers from different groups
• Attend conferences and external meetups and keep an eye on the industry from technology and guilds management angle
• Promoting cross site initiatives (e.g. GuildFest, Code Katas or Hackathons)
• Find relevant study cases to be shared in the guild
• Each day will look different!

What are things you will not do?

• Infrastructure or coding
• Enforce standards
• Manage people directly