Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Creators
This is a Full-time position in Boston, MA posted October 17, 2021.
Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
Contribute to the full development cycle technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch.
You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers.
Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.
Who You Might Be
5 years of software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages; Go, Python, Rust, C++.
Experienced with GraphQL, REST, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs is a plus.
Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
Entrepreneurial spirit.
You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments.
You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure.
Excellent communication skills.
You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
