Join the team as a Backend Software Engineer, responsible for developing scalable applications, including distributed systems and APIs, while working with cloud platforms and databases.
We are seeking a skilled and passionate backend developer to join our growing team and take ownership of key aspects of our cutting-edge projects.
In this role, you will have a major impact in shaping the development of high-performance scalable applications.
What you bring:
- 2- 4 years of experience in designing, building, and deploying highly scalable and performant distributed systems in a production environment.
- Demonstrated ability to design and build such backend distributed applications, considering many aspects of application design and implementation including performance, security, maintainability, resiliency, user experience, and more.
- Demonstrated ability to balance and engineer trade-offs between implementation time required and sophistication of the solution.
- Experience with requirement analysis (working with Product to define the scope of solutions)
- Proficiency with cloud computing platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure - Load balancing, API gateways, User management, Object stores, Security, Databases, etc.
- Deep proficiency with one of these programming languages: C#, RUST, Java, C++, GO, Scala, Python
- Proficiency designing and implementing API’s: GraphQL, REST, gRPC, etc.
- Proficiency working with large data sets in a variety of databases technologies, such as: Postgres, CockroachDB, Vitess, Bigtable, Cassandra, Dynamo, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
- Proficiency in applying caching solutions to address performance and scalability needs.
- Experience with Agile development
- Experience with CI/CD methodologies and automation tools such as Terraform
It would be great if you had (prioritized):
- Experience working with dynamic (not-fixed) schemas, and schemas defined by 3rd party developers.
- Proficiency with Microservices Architecture and tools: Kubernetes, Docker, serverless, etc.
- Proficiency with Application Resiliency and DevOps: security, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, monitoring, logging, and operation at scale
- Experience working with large data sets in browser-based real-time collaborative multi-user applications. This could be experience with web apps manipulating large quantities of text, charts, 2D, or 3D graphics, etc.
- Experience with data manipulation in collaborative web applications. For example, handling “eventual consistency” of data in “multi-Player” collaboration technologies (such as with “Google Docs”). Technologies such as SignalIR, Y.js, etc.
- Domain experience: CAD, ML, Simulation, Data compression, Reprographics, Solid modelling, Reality Capture/3D-scanning, and other technologies found in the building architecture and construction industries.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Bigtable
C#
C++
Cassandra
Cockroachdb
Docker
Dynamo
GCP
Go
GraphQL
Grpc
Java
Kafka
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
RabbitMQ
Rest
Rust
Scala
Terraform
Vitess
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