Do you love algorithms, building services at scale, and optimizing performance? As a member of the Back end team, you will be responsible for designing and building the features and underlying systems that power our core product. You'll get to work with a variety of external and internally developed technologies. Our backend stack is constantly evolving, and you will directly contribute to improving the flexibility, scalability, and efficiency of our system.

Responsibilities

• Develop reliable, scalable, and flexible systems
• Design, implement, test and maintain backend components: application, data, infrastructure, analytics and deployment
• Design and build systems with automated instrumentation and monitoring
• Design and Implement RESTful APIs
• Live and breathe system reliability and up-time
• Consistently improve maintainability and stability of the codebase
• Identify and resolve performance and Scalability issues

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (Master’s degree in Computer Science is preferred)
• Excited to use new technologies
• Strong foundation in programming, algorithms, and software application design
• Experience with Python, Java, C, C++ or C#
• Broad knowledge on databases, data structures, data modeling
• Strong coder who can easily pass algorithm coding tests
• Experience with MySql or any RDBMS
• Experience with NoSQL - Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB
• Passionate about solving challenging problems and iterating quickly
• Passion for agile, test-driven development, continuous integration and automated testing
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and functional programming paradigms

Highly Desired

• Previous experience in distributed systems, data processing and analytics is a plus
• Experience in technical leadership of an engineering team
• Ideally can lead a project, or at least can work independently without oversight.
• BS,MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field preferred