Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

If you have played the top 100 mobile games in the market, you probably used Rave. We build the platform (SDK + hosted service) used by game publishers to make their mobile games socially engaging with things like identity management, leaderboards, achievements, etc. While we sell to marketing and business teams, we are developers building for developers.

Here are some things you might appreciate about Rave:

• We are bootstrapped so we don't have outside investor pressure or control.
• We are profitable so we are sustainable and not dependent on investors to pay the bills.
• We serve over 100,000,000 users so we are making our own little dent in the universe.
• We are small and nimble so you can have an impact and you don't have to deal with the overhead of working at a large organization.
• We are growing into more games and now into other vertical markets too.
• We are generous with our employee stocks since we are employee-driven, not investor-driven.

Job Description

We are looking for an awesome backend engineering lead to join our team! This person will extend our back-end system architecture, develop services that will scale to tens of millions of users, and help grow and lead our backend engineering team.

Qualifications

Some things we look for:

• Track record of delivering. What have you shipped recently?
• Ability to acquire new technical skills. Your past experiences can certainly help you at the start -- see the next section -- but it's your ability to learn that matters most to us.
• Your ability to consider complex trade-offs. Can you break down large problems into smaller ones and think through the implications of your decisions in the context of the complete system architecture? You should consider multiple approaches and be able to explain why you selected the one you implemented.
• Attention to detail. You find the corner cases and make sure they're covered.
• Sense of humor. We're very serious about building our product and company -- your stand-up routine won't get you hired -- but we believe a few moments of levity along the way makes everybody's lives better.
• Experience with Python.

Additional Information

Experience that will help you hit the ground running with us:

• Implementing systems that leverage data stores that scale horizontally and understanding when a given data store provides an appropriate solution for a given problem.
• Creating fault-tolerant systems that make the devops team happy to deploy your code.
• Designing and implementing REST APIs.
• Working in a *nix environment.
• Experience with Flask (preferred), Pyramid or similar web framework is a big plus.
• Experience with MySQL and Python ORMs like SQLAlchemy is a big plus.
• Writing appropriate unit and functional tests to enable rapid iteration.