Senior Backend Engineer
Skills
Back-End Web DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentApache KafkaData ArchitectureMicroservicesRedisServer Side
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Self-driven backend engineer with experience owning software projects end-to-end
- 3+ years of software development experience
- Track record of solving problems end-to-end
- Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and RESTful APIs
- Expertise in server-side software development in Golang (or other languages e.g. Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python)
- Strong understanding of database design and modeling (e.g., PostgreSQL)
- Excellent communicator able to work cohesively in a cross-functional team
- Experience with data-intensive applications, big data pipelines and analytics using tools like Snowflake, DataBricks, Amplitude and Looker
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, ArgoCD
- Experience with Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Airflow
- Experience with Android development, Flutter, Kotlin
- Experience with Swift/SwiftUI
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience integrating with Stripe, OneSignal
- Interest in the fitness industry
Day to day
- Impact and contribute to the development of major software projects for our backend services
- Collaborate with our tightly integrated software, hardware and content teams to continually evolve the product
- Work closely with the product team to clarify requirements and develop designs for new features
- Implement, test, deploy and monitor software for our cloud-based backend microservices
- Write and review clean, secure and testable code with a focus on maintainability, scalability and performance
- Develop and support cloud-based big data pipelines
- Use analytics to understand product behavior and motivate data-driven decisions
- Mentor and share your broad knowledge with more junior engineers