Senior Tech Engineer (Back-end) (M/F)

Challenges

• Design & build mission-critical backend applications in a rapidly-changing, fast-paced environment
• Take full ownership of your work, bringing creativity and helpfulness to the workplace every day
• Think big and consistently deliver innovation while solving complex problems
• Bring bleeding-edge technology into varied problem domains as a member of a high-performing, self-organizing team

• Solid experience building backend applications
• At least one significant experience using intensively one of these languages: Javascript, Go, Scala or C#
• Exposure to and understanding of the basic AWS cloud services like EC2. RDS, S3, DynamoDB, and ELB/NLB or equivalent services in another cloud environment
• Eagerness to learn new skills and code using new languages
• Familiarity with CI tools and processes like CircleCI and Agile development
• Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services
• Familiarity with services & technologies used in our Stack (see below)

• Backend code is written primarily in Node.js with some Spark and Scala when use cases warrant it
• Cloud hosting is AWS with regular ongoing use of EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, ECS, EKS, Route53 and Lambda
• DevOps/CI is implemented using CircleCI, Airflow, Git (GitHub), Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana
• Emphasis is placed on CI/CD
• Persistent databases are both RDBMS and NoSql and normally implemented via RDS or DynamoDB
• Caching is implemented via Redis and Memcached