Software Engineer II, Backend
Skills
Cloud InfrastructureAmazon ElasticacheAmazon Web ServicesECSMicrosoft SurfaceNew HiresPerformance Improvement
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- 2+ years of industry experience as a software engineer
- Strong coding skills
- Understanding of scalable distributed systems
- Willingness to learn Node.js Rust PostgreSQL and Terraform
- AWS experience is a plus
- Ownership mindset with initiative to build and fix
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to commit to priorities and execute them
- Willingness to participate in on-call processes
- Alignment with company values
Nice to have
- Startup experience
- High-traffic systems
- Collaborative
- Inclusive
- Transparent
Day to day
- Build and improve backend infrastructure that supports millions of users and billions of requests
- Enhance performance reliability observability capacity management and data scalability across core services
- Work on workflow engine and data tier services for high-volume ingest export and complex applications
- Participate in triage and on-call response to diagnose issues and implement lasting fixes
- Collaborate closely with senior engineers on scalable distributed systems and foundational cloud tools
Hiring process
- Apply
- Review application
- Interview process