Software powers the world, and we empower all teams to deliver and control the best software. As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems. Our platform serves over twenty trillion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, Redis, and NATS. As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible for supporting applications in production, including on-call. Off-hours on-call is optional and compensated in addition.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate with product managers, other engineers, and designers to drive the implementation and release of major features
Monitor and improve server-side performance
Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
Actively participate in code reviews
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Qualifications:
You're a Full Stack engineer, but comfortable with at least 40-50% Backend focus
Demonstrable experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang)
Experience with modern JavaScript libraries and tooling, such as React
Experience building RESTful APIs
Experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems
Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
A familiarity with networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)
Compensation
Our compensation scheme is based on geography and level of experience, from $127,000 to $204,000, with RSUs, health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
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