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Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Significant experience with Node.js and strong knowledge of JavaScript fundamentals
  • 5+ years of TypeScript/Node.js development
  • Strong SQL knowledge and experience with Redis and MongoDB
  • Demonstrable experience building scalable consumer-based apps and APIs, including unit, integration, and load testing

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js/TypeScript
  • Design and implement robust APIs with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security
  • Write and maintain tests (unit/integration/load) and uphold code quality and engineering best practices
  • Collaborate with a fully distributed team, communicate effectively, and participate in architecture and planning discussions

About the company

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Zencastr

Zencastr is the most reliable Hi-Fi Audio and HD Video All-in-One Podcasting Platform. https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/22/zencastr-adds-editing-and-distro-in-bid-to-become-a-full-service-podcast-offering/

Company details

Company size11 - 50

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Job description

Empower the voices of the world @ Zencastr. If you want to push the world of podcasting into the future, come join a team who loves to live on the edge! We are a fully distributed team of smart people who are passionate about changing the world one voice at a time.

You should join us if you:

  • Have significant experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals

  • Have a good understanding of computer science fundamentals. You might not have gone to school for it, but you know the difference between heap and stack, different time complexities, and which patterns to use and when.

  • You are ambitious. You might want to build your own company one day or have tried to tackle the toughest tech problems just for fun.

  • You enjoy writing Javascript or Typescript

  • You have an eye for performance. Whether thinking about the latest client side bundling techniques, or the proper way to shard a mongo database, you want things to be fast.

  • You are a team player

  • You have good communication skills


What sets you apart:

  • You have a passion for high performance applications

  • You have significant open source contributions

  • You want to work in a fast growing startup. Which comes with the blood, sweat and tears of working to disrupt an established industry

  • You have empathy for the end user. A spec is a conversation starter, as an advocate for the end user you always are thinking about how to best serve their needs

  • You have an eye for code quality and you strive to uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design


Why you should choose us:

  • You’ll be working with world class engineers, Phd’s, and designers in a fully distributed team

  • Work in an agile and fast changing environment

  • Equity commensurate to your contribution in a profitable company

  • Health insurance

  • Unique challenges and the support and talent to solve them

  • 4 weeks PTO

  • Freedom to work where you please


What we’re looking for:

  • 5+ years of Typescript, Node.js development

  • Strong document / key-value store knowledge (Redis, MongoDB)

  • Strong SQL knowledge

  • Demonstrable knowledge of building scaleable consumer based apps

  • Strong experience with unit, integration, and load testing

  • Experience building APIs

  • Experience with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, Digital Ocean)


Bonus points if you have:

  • Experiencing working in high traffic, low latency applications

  • Good dev ops experience

  • Digital Signal Processing experience

  • Strong SQL knowledge

  • AI experience

How to apply:

Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/zencastr/e5897c7a-4622-495b-a892-81763a2ef112

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