Senior Backend Engineer
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Description
- Write high quality and well tested code, and review code from other team members
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to turn requirements into products and lead the execution end to end
- Provide guidance and technical leadership to peers in navigating architectural and coding tradeoffs
- Take charge of driving strategic technical initiatives across engineering pods that impact the entire engineering organization
Benefits
- Unlimited and encouraged time off
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, & vision for you and your dependents
- 401(k) participation
- Annual $1,500 education stipend
- Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Home office setup stipend for remote employees
- Daily lunches at NY headquarters
- Design, build, and maintain a large-scale production system on the cloud, ensuring smooth operation and high availability
- Be able to build systems from the ground up, on a 0→1 fashion
- Desire to keep up with modern best practices in software development/Web3, and shape our tech stack as we build out new systems and services
- Consistently manage projects comprehensively, starting from gathering requirements and designing, to debugging and testing, and finally to release management and operational monitoring
- Mentored junior engineers
- Excellent coding skills, deep understanding of cloud architectures, algorithms, and strong debugging capabilities
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience with AWS
- Love for unicorns :)
- Experience with Typescript
- Degree in computer science
- Prior experience with time-series based monitoring / observability systems
- Has previously been a Technical Lead