Senior Software Engineer, Backend | Production Management

Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ years as a software engineer focused on building large-scale distributed systems with proven impact.
• Architecture: Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, including consensus, convergence, data consistency, and performance/efficiency constructs. Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Coding Skills: Proficient in writing clean, elegant, bug-free code.
• Leadership: Proven experience leading engineering teams to deliver large, multi-functional projects autonomously. Ability to own part of the team’s charter and help set the long-term direction.
• Project Management: Ability to manage projects from scoping requirements to launch.
• Continuous Learning: Strong desire to learn, grow, and build best-in-class systems.

Key Skills:

• Solution Design: Design reliable solutions for business use cases in highly distributed systems.
• Problem Solving: Ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Implementation: Write clean, readable code with unit and integration test coverage, and running it in production.
• Cross-Team Communication: Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to push forward and step back as needed. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Engineering Best Practices: Commitment to pushing the bar on engineering best practices and helping build a strong engineering culture.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build elegant backend platform components for high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Tackle challenging problems with innovative design and algorithms.
• Collaborate with team members to maintain system health, ensure code hygiene, refactor, and enhance system robustness and resilience.
• Promote best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability.
• Analyze and decompose complex software systems, working with cross-functional teams to design for scalability and testability.
• Work with motivated and curious teammates in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with building platforms, platform engineering, and deployment systems is a plus.
• Experience with large-scale, data-intensive applications is a plus.
• Experience working with k8s, operators is a plus.
• Go is our primary coding language. We think Java/Rust/C++ is acceptable and transferable.