Backend Engineer

Key Responsibilities
Technical excellence is essential for this role, as you'll be working on our microservices architecture that handles massive scale and traffic spikes.
The ideal candidate demonstrates strong proficiency in distributed systems concepts including consistency models, fault tolerance, and horizontal scaling.
You must be comfortable designing and implementing high-throughput, low-latency services that maintain performance during peak loads.
Additionally, you should have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical decisions, create comprehensive documentation, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in a remote environment.
You'll be expected to participate in architecture reviews, contribute to technical discussions, and deliver high quality code.

What You'll Do
Work cross-functionally, collaborate and partner with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build Client products and features that our users will love.
Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You'll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
You will work with the existing engineering team and help contribute to the direction of the project and team
Create and maintain APIs, rSpec testing suite, and middleware to facilitate data flow between systems
Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, and debugging to identify and resolve integration issues
Ensure compliance with security protocols and data privacy regulations during integration processes
Troubleshoot and optimize application performance to provide optimal experience
Ability to design maintainable database schemas and easy-to-understand data structures
Ability to design technical solutions with little direction or guidance
Engage in the team's organizational processes, such as planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews, to ensure effective collaboration and feedback
Proactively identify and address potential technical issues and bottlenecks

Required Experience
Minimum 8+ years of post-internship, full-time, hands-on, professional software development experience developing distributed backend systems at scale.
Expertise in Java, Python, Go, or Rust
Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and handling high-throughput workloads
Familiarity with software engineering best practices such as unit/integration/end-to-end testing, design documents, CI/CD, A/B testing, code reviews, and documentation
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and keep projects on schedule.
Excellent communication skills. You collaborate effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical, professional, hands-on experience.
You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure. You care about innovation.
Experience with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), caching systems (Redis, Memcached), and database technologies (SQL and NoSQL)
Experience with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, and the ability to design maintainable APIs