Full-Time Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role having complete ownership in the design, development, and implementation of a robust and scalable backend & infrastructure used by our mobile clients, but also in supporting the development of our second brain. You will make a significant impact on shaping the services and features that will bring our product to life and will be used by millions.

What You'll Do

• Write simple, high quality code that can easily be understood and leveraged by others
• Lead full life cycle design & implementation of product requirements, which includes task break-down, delivering, testing, and maintenance
• Collaborate closely with the product and the rest of the engineering team to transform product and feature specifications into a reality (we ship on a daily basis).

Example of Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Minimum 5 years professional experience in a backend language (preferably Golang). Interest in Rust is a plus.
• Programming, architecture, database design, and operations skills
• Scaling a distributed system & the corresponding constraints and trade-offs of operating at scale
• Familiarity designing event-driven architected backend (message queues, event streaming)
• Asynchronous processing, concurrency, parallelism
• Solid grasp of how gRPC, HTTP, TCP, UDP work
• Strong believer of CI/CD (Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS Fargate)
• Observability tools, monitoring, alerting (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus)
• You’re a self-starter who can quickly roll out quality code and build out simple systems
• You have experience working in a fast paced startup environment
• You are are excited by the prospect of working on an AI product
• You’re humble and biased to action, with a “no task is too small” mindset
• You are able to adapt and thrive with an early stage team while navigating the unknown
• You think like an owner and can prioritize what’s best for the company
• You like to keep things simple and not get too caught up in the weeds
• You like to be challenged and see this role as a growth opportunity
• Being nice matters to you, and you’re a self-proclaimed champion
• You have Advanced english skills.

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