The opportunity:

Do you wish application security was more accessible to all developers? Do you want to make the lives of developers easier? Come help us develop the next generation of application security testing!

We are looking for an experienced backend developer to work on Mayhem, our next-generation autonomous application security testing platform. In this role, you will have a chance to make a large impact on a quickly growing team/product, working on a first class experience built for developers, by developers.

Our engineering team is a small (but growing!), motivated group of developers working together to try to better the state of application security today. We place a large emphasis on personal growth and collaboration, striving to continuously improve and learn as we tackle new challenges together. 

 

What you will do:

• Design/develop new (and improve existing) features and functionality across Mayhem's backend.
• Follow and contribute towards best engineering practices, tooling, and processes.
• Mentor and train other team members.

 

You are someone who: 

• Has a strong CS fundamentals background through a current pursuit of Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science or related discipline.
• Has 6+ years of strong programming experience in Python on the backend building performant and scalable API's.
  • Our current stack uses Python (Flask/SQLAlchemy), PostgreSQL, Rust, and Javascript/Typescript (React/Redux)
• Has experience mentoring junior developers.
• Demonstrates a strong drive for continuous improvement and learning.