Senior Backend Engineer
March 19
Description
• Advance the platform for the next generation of features, scale, and reliability. • Collaborate with Product, Design/UX, and mobile engineers to provide feedback, plan, and execute on roadmap features. • Strong execution to build and ship high quality features through weekly sprints and releases • Maintain highly reliable services with an SLA. Diagnose and fix production issues swiftly.
Requirements
• At least 4+ years experience building backend systems operating reliably at scale • Strong coding skills in Python producing well tested, clean, and bug free code. Ruby experience a bonus. • Experience building reliable high throughput low latency APIs • Experience with distributed and scalable systems architecture favoring data consistency, performance, and reliability and optimizing eng-to-end performance across the full stack • Experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and scalability issues • Experience with on-call monitoring and ensuring good observability, alerting, and fast mitigation. • Experience writing designing database tables and indexes optimized based on read/write pattern, efficient SQL queries, and reducing schema churn • Strong execution and delivery skills, and developing collaboratively and iteratively with code reviews, and best practices in an agile environment • You have built APIs and systems that service millions of end users. • BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering from a top school • Prior startup experience
Benefits
• Competitive salary based on experience • Opportunity to create impact in a high growth startup environment • Paid time off • Employee Referral bonus • Monthly team-building activities and happy hours • Most importantly, stock in an early-stage fast-growing startup company
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