Senior Backend Engineer

February 10

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $160k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Medium is an innovative online education platform that connects expert educators and tutors with learners aged 3 to 18. It offers a variety of live video chat classes in subjects such as math, languages, coding, and arts, allowing for both group and individualized learning. Medium focuses on personalized tutoring and a full curriculum that nurtures neurodiversity, ensuring that every learner can find engaging and enriching educational experiences.

Online Publishing • Media • Content • News

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

📚 Education

👥 B2C

📋 Description

• Medium’s mission is to deepen understanding of the world and spread ideas that matter. • Medium is building the best place for reading and writing on the internet—a place where today’s smartest writers, thinkers, experts, and storytellers can share big, interesting ideas; a place where ideas are judged on the value they provide to readers, not the fleeting attention they can attract for advertisers. • As we expand our team, we’re looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to drive the development of the backend systems that power both Medium’s website and mobile applications. • This is a high-impact role where you’ll have the opportunity to shape the technical direction of our platform, improve system performance, and mentor the next generation of engineers.

🎯 Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, including at least 3 years experience writing Golang and Kubernetes in your most recent professional role(s) • You possess a solid foundation in general backend technologies, including databases, services, performance optimization, profiling, and caching, and you’re comfortable working in complex cloud-native architectures. • You write clean, maintainable, and testable production code, with a strong emphasis on long-term sustainability and system health. • You are a problem-solver who enjoys tackling ambiguous challenges and continuously improving systems, practices, and processes. • You are a strong communicator, and you are able to clearly articulate technical concepts and ideas both verbally and in writing.

🏖️ Benefits

• Working with a fully distributed team: We’re fully remote and have teammates across the U.S. & France • Healthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees and 70% for dependents • Generous parental leave policy & tutoring services through Outschool • Mental health support through Talkspace • Financial wellness support through Northstar • Stipends for wellness, Co-working, professional development, wifi and a one-time home office bonus • Unlimited PTO and standard company holidays • A Medium subscription!