Senior Backend Engineer - Cassandra, Golang or Python - Remote

Overview

You will work with the existing engineering team and help contribute to the direction of the projection and team. The existing team is a Product team that is building a backend for user-facing products. You will help understand, and analyze technical problems, and performance issues, and help with legacy migrations when necessary. You need to be able to understand and troubleshoot data-intensive systems.

In Short

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Rust, Ruby).
• 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems.
• A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: Earn a USD salary that matches your skills and experience.
• Paid Time Off: We value work-life balance, offering PTO so you can recharge.
• Health Insurance Subsidy: Your health matters, and we help with a subsidy to cover your care.
• Salary Reviews every year!
• Paid Training and Certifications.