Senior Backend Engineer

August 24

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2006

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👥 B2C

💰 Venture Round on 2019-03

Description

• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large scale distributed system serving millions of people per day • Building new product features in Go and PHP • Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems • Configuring and maintaining the infrastructure that runs those systems • Writing unit and service tests for all your code • Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a prior software development role • You are skilled in Go • You know PHP • You have experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider like Azure or GCP) • You have experience with 3rd party integrations • You enjoy building and maintaining complex back-end systems that operate 24/7 at high scale • You write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers (but you can also deal with code that isn’t and doesn’t) • You are comfortable in both static and dynamic languages and don’t mind switching between them • You love learning and applying your knowledge in novel ways • Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (with “just enough” documentation)

Benefits

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals • Health benefits, including vision and dental! • RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA) • Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up • Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family • Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!