Backend Software Engineer, Reykjavik

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer with a passion for learning and working on systems. You will work with a world-class team of engineers on deploying and operating existing systems, and building new ones for challenges that are unique to our problem space. You will have a unique opportunity to design, develop, and operate services and frameworks that power Asana. This role is based in our Reykjavik office with an office-centric hybrid schedule. The standard in-office days are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Most Asanas have the option to work from home on Wednesdays. Working from home on Fridays depends on the type of work you do and the teams with which you partner. If you're interviewing for this role, your recruiter will share more about the in-office requirements. What you’ll achieve Design, build, and iterate on frameworks that influence all aspects of the Asana product. Partner with other frameworks and product engineering teams to identify opportunities to enable teams to develop faster at Asana, and help the company achieve our goals faster. Analyze complex systems to uncover issues, root causes and areas of improvement Champion code quality and best practices, setting a standard through example and frameworks Develop new APIs that balance usability with the capability to support Asana’s feature-rich web application Write clean, beautiful code, striving to leave it in a better state than you found it Experience growth through opportunities to stretch and learn, enhancing your development Collaborate with a world-class engineering team to build new functionality through intuitive building blocks. About you 3+ years of BE experience working in large, well-maintained codebases writing and shipping production code Ability to learn quickly and transition seamlessly between different areas of a complex codebase Sound autonomous judgment when balancing moving quickly with producing quality, long-term maintainable code Focus on establ