Senior Backend Engineer
Level, Austin, TX
What you will do
- Design and build robust, scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices for our platform.
- Build highly available, robust, secure, sustainable, and maintainable tech
- Drive analysis and improvement of services' quality and performance
- Implement and advocate for best practices in testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting.
- Own aspects of innovative feature and/or system development, considering usability, scalability, security, and performance
Need to Have
- 5+ years of experience developing developing successful, highly-available online services.
- Experience building and deploying services into cloud environments and infrastructure as code.
- Strong experience with backend languages, primarily Kotlin.
- Experience implementing GitOps approach – managing infrastructure, deployments, CI/CD, live operations and documentation as a code.
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., Redis, DynamoDB).
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features and improve existing ones with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security.