Senior Backend Engineer

November 8

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Virtual Internships

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Remote Internship Programs • Global Talent Acquisition • Skills-Based Hiring • Education Partnerships • Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Description

• As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend (SDE-II/III) at Virtual Internships, you will be part of a global team of ambitious talents who champion quality through excellent coding practices and continuous learning. • Taking full ownership of your work from inception to production, you will collaborate effectively across teams. • You will integrate testing naturally into your workflow to ensure reliability and participate actively in design and code reviews. • With strong time management and prioritization skills, you will communicate clearly with stakeholders. • Thriving in a fast-paced environment, you will set and achieve ambitious milestones. • You’ll design and build scalable systems to be used by millions of students and companies. • You will own large components, systems, or projects, coordinating and communicating with teams and leads across the organization. • You will architect backend solutions to high complexity problems, with high-availability and high-reliability in mind. • You will instigate design discussions and facilitate engineering-wide learning. • You will be the primary driver of resolving production issues, holding post-mortems, and owning long-term fixes. • We believe in a small and effective team - you’ll have a say in what to build and then own it. • We are paranoid about performance - you’ll investigate performance/scalability bottlenecks and existing queries, and/or write new queries with performance optimisation in mind. • Identify libraries and technologies that solve our problems and/or are worth experimentation.

Requirements

• 4+ years of background and experience in software development for Senior Backend Engineer • Proficiency in over one language - preferably JS/Java/Python - including debugging and performance • Understanding of databases - Relational and Non Relational - their data models and performance • Experience building web applications and familiarity with at least one framework (Express, Django, etc) • Knowledge of caching techniques and utilities like Memcache / Redis • Knowledge of REST paradigm, service oriented architecture and distributed systems • Clear understanding of data structures and algorithms • Knowledge of how the internet and networking works (i.e. DNS, HTTP, TLS, Certificates, etc) and the tools and services that enable people and devices to connect to services (e.g., browsers, CDNs, proxies, etc). • Some knowledge of and experience with how systems work at scale (e.g. threads, virtualization, configuration management, load balancers, caching) is desirable.

Benefits

• Remote-First: All roles at VI are currently and will remain remote - flexibility to work from anywhere. • Flexible Working Hours: Start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch, or leave later, it's totally up to you. • Annual Leave : Wherever you are in the world, you’ll get 25 days of paid annual leave per year, plus bank holidays and 5 sick days. • Life Event Leave: There are moments in life where your life responsibility is a higher priority than work (e.g. moving house, your best friend getting married, your sister having a baby) therefore, you’ll get 5 days of paid life-event leave to support these occasions. You also get a day off on your birthday. This is in addition to your Annual Leave. • Flexible VIer Budget: You’ll receive a flexible budget of $1,000 per year that you can use on but not limited to your work setup, personal wellness, or professional development. • Tech: New joiners receive either a Windows, a Macbook or a $750 budget for your company laptop depending on the role and location.