Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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September 18

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11 - 50 employees

💰 $16.5M Series A on 2018-03

📋 Description

• Own assigned development projects from start to finish • Collaborate with the Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance, and evolve AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.) • Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitor system health • Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack • Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues and proactively identify areas for improvement • Write clean, tested, maintainable code and perform code reviews to help others do the same • Measure and improve customer experience using data-driven approaches • Work on scalability, performance, and reliability for a real-time AI platform used by millions of people

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a Backend / Infrastructure Software Engineer • Proficient in Ruby on Rails • Experience with SQL databases • Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting • Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and Linux environments • Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns • Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code • Strong interpersonal and communication skills • Ability to persevere through engineering challenges and embrace unfamiliar problems • Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving • Preferred: experience with distributed systems • Preferred: experience performance tuning and scaling systems with high volumes of user traffic • Preferred: experience with Apache Spark • Preferred: familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL • Passion for backend and infrastructure development • Self-motivation, grit, and tenacity • Ownership mindset: proactive and self-driven with strong initiative

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical/Dental/Vision) • Potential to hold company equity for full-time employees • Flexible remote work • Unlimited Responsible PTO • Great opportunity to join a growing, cash-flow-positive company with direct impact on revenue and growth