Responsibilities:
● You’ll lead backend and frontend engineers and define the architecture.
● You’ll define engineering best practices, mentor junior engineers, and participate in code
and design reviews.
● You’ll help our support team triage bugs, respond to user feedback, and fix production
issues.
● Be a technical leader within the team you work with.
● You will build highly scalable, robust, and fault-tolerant distributed systems that support
our unique rate-of-growth requirements. You stay up-to-date with the latest architectural
trends.
● You will be bridging the worlds of software development and systems management.
Requirements:
● 4+ years of experience building consumer-facing web applications at scale.
● Experience working in a service-oriented or microservice architecture.
● Evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of a large, high-scale web application
(e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
● Experience with web best practices such as A/B testing, test coverage.
● Familiarity with or interest in Node.js/Python/Go
● Experience designing and deploying high-performance production services with
extensive monitoring and logging practices
● Architecture skills. You should have thoughts on constructing highly scalable software
systems and good knowledge of the principles of fault-tolerance, reliability and durability.
● Have a solid understanding and love for microservice architecture
● Experience leading engineering teams and setting technical direction.
● Experience with web best practices such as A/B testing, test coverage.
● Experience in DevOps. Strong knowledge of AWS is required.
● Experience operating at all levels of the stack, debugging problems from UI to backend
systems
● Strong organizational and communication skills
Bonus Points:
● You know your way around Amazon's AWS offerings and experience with EC2, Lambda,
AWS Gateway, Elasticache, Redis, DynamoDB, IAM, and Kinesis are a plus
● Have experience in full stack development.
● Notable contributions to open source software projects- send us a link to your
contributions
● You’ve built brilliant APIs/interfaces that other programmers love to use