This is for a client of Recruiting from Scratch.
Who is Recruiting from Scratch: Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.
Our Client: Our client is a dating app.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with our product teams, building models and APIs to drive new features, deliver analysis to further improve engagement in existing features, and empower our business with real-time insights to drive growth in market share, engagement, and revenue. We see 1 trillion events per year and process 10TB of data daily.
What’s the job?
- Be a part of the engineering team where we implement new features and work closely with the product and design teams.
- Build for the future by designing maintainable and well-tested systems to serve a global audience of millions of concurrent users (we’re big!).
- Own the design and development of our backend services in a stable and scalable microservices architecture.
- Work with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to refine feature design and functionality.
- Build for the future by designing and testing simple, elegant, maintainable software.
- Optimize key pieces of our platform using tools like Redis, Postgres, Kafka on AWS services.
- Innovate by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflow.
- Ensure high availability of the platform through distributed systems and infrastructure engineering.
- Help guide and mentor team members through pairing sessions, code reviews, and architecture reviews.
- Troubleshoot unexpected issues across various systems because being the most popular is hard… and fun. :)
- Take a prominent role in optimizations, cost savings, and incident responses.
What We'll Love About You
- 7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer developing critical portions of working on Backend Systems (Service APIs, Data Processing, Messaging Services).
- Experience designing and implementing large-scale Web or API systems for high load and data consistency.
- Experience designing systems that make heavy and efficient use of Cloud Services (any cloud).
- Passionate about testing software and systems.
- Deep understanding of concurrency concepts and trade-offs.
- You love figuring things out and understand how they work end-to-end.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Experience with the JVM and at least one JVM language. Experience designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems.
We’ll really swoon if you have any of:
- Experience developing Production systems using Kotlin, SQL, Kubernetes, or Kafka.
- Experience developing or working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tools, such as Github Actions or CircleCI.
- Experience of mentoring / skilling up less experienced developers.
Location: The role is hybrid two days a week in Palo Alto, San Francisco, or Chicago.
Salary Range: $180,000 - 250,000 USD base. Equity. Medical, Dental, Vision.
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