Senior Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create and develop essential platform components, services, and shared libraries utilized by product teams.

• Construct foundational infrastructure that facilitates quicker feature delivery with consistency, reliability, and security.

• Build security-critical services aimed at protecting sensitive data, ensuring secure access, and implementing encryption.

• Design and enhance high-load distributed systems for processing images and videos.

• Enhance the performance, scalability, and fault tolerance of mission-critical platform services.

• Advance monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting functionalities for the observability platform.

• Strategize and carry out large-scale, zero-downtime data migrations.

• Expand and refine multi-region infrastructure to meet latency, availability, and data-residency requirements.

• Lead architectural decisions and oversee platform initiatives from design to production.

• Tackle technically challenging issues across distributed systems, infrastructure, security, and developer productivity.

• Collaborate with various teams and contribute to shared codebases.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in backend development, Java, databases, and distributed systems.

• Proficient in system design and creating scalable, production-ready solutions.

• Capable of working independently and taking full ownership of complex tasks.

• Knowledgeable about performance, reliability, and best practices for backend services.

• Experience in a product-driven engineering environment.

• Comfortable working collaboratively with other teams and contributing to shared codebases.

• Proficiency in Java 17.

• Familiarity with MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Redis.

• Experience with Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams.

• Knowledge of Elasticsearch or OpenSearch (k-NN).

• Experience with Airflow.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote-first, trust-based culture.

• No mandatory office attendance and no attendance trackers.

• Offices or coworking spaces available in select locations, based on employee preference.

• Flexible working hours without a fixed 9-to-5 schedule.

• Birthday holiday.

• 10 personal days per year.

• Seven sick days with no paperwork required.

• Additional time off during Christmas and New Year.

• Competitive and transparent pay benchmarked against the market.

• Opportunities for learning and personal development plans.

• Financial coverage for role-specific events, such as design conferences and marketing forums.

• Financial bonuses for marriage.

• Financial bonuses for the arrival of a new baby.

• Fully funded team offsites several times a year.

• Provision of necessary tools and hardware for work.