Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

You’ll lead backend and frontend engineers and define the architecture.

You’ll define engineering best practices, mentor junior engineers, and participate in code and design reviews.

You’ll help our support team triage bugs, respond to user feedback, and fix production issues.

Be a technical leader within the team you work with.

You will build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant distributed systems that support our unique rate-of-growth requirements.

You stay up-to-date with the latest architectural trends.

You will be bridging the worlds of software development and systems management.

Requirements:

4+ years of experience building consumer-facing web applications at scale.

Experience working in a service-oriented or microservice architecture.

Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application

(e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).

Experience with web best practices such as A/B testing, test coverage.

Familiarity with or interest in Node.js/Python/Go

Experience designing and deploying high-performance production services with

extensive monitoring and logging practices

Architecture skills. You should have thoughts on constructing highly scalable software

systems and good knowledge of the principles of fault-tolerance, reliability, and durability.

Have a solid understanding and love for microservice architecture

Experience leading engineering teams and setting technical direction.

Experience with web best practices such as A/B testing, test coverage.

Experience in DevOps. Strong knowledge of AWS is required.

Experience operating at all levels of the stack, debugging problems from UI to backend systems

Strong organizational and communication skills

Bonus Points:

You know your way around Amazon's AWS offerings and experience with EC2, Lambda,

AWS Gateway, Elasticache, Redis, DynamoDB, IAM, and Kinesis are a plus Have experience in full stack development.

Notable contributions to open source software projects- send us a link to your contributions

You’ve built brilliant APIs/interfaces that other programmers love to use.