Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer
Santa Monica, California, United States or Remote

Description

This is a chance to be at the start of something big and different. We’re a small team that has secured major funding and recently made a media splash with our first public appearance while still in stealth mode. Our beta product is already in market, with over 900K users, but has been kept very quiet. Over the next few months we’re gearing up for a much larger public launch.

We are focused on scaling to tens of thousands of messages per second in a consumer-facing technology platform that has already signed up some of the biggest names in the world as backers and clients.

We are seeking backend engineers to help us develop and scale our platform built on Elixir, containers, and AWS. Our small, collaborative team includes previously successful startup founders, experienced leaders, and veterans of some of the best companies in the industry. In addition, you’ll have direct access to a network of other specialists helping to ensure the company reaches the next level.

We are builders, creators, and innovators. We’d love to give you a demo of what we’ve built, and we’d love to see examples of your work as well, so please feel free to share with us samples of work that you’re proud of.


Our Stack and Process

  • Our backend is largely asynchronous, written in Elixir, running in Docker containers, on a distributed, scheduled platform on AWS. We work with PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Redis, and RabbitMQ among others. The front-ends are in React, React Native, iOS, and Javascript.
  • We are an agile team with our own rituals and an evolving process.

What You’ll Do

  • Work closely with product managers, data science professionals, front-end engineers, systems engineers, and the rest of the backend team to deliver a product that delights our customers.

  • Collaborate with teammates to design components, help set standards, and drive quality.
  • Write well-tested code and participate in the code review process.
  • Build new services and component libraries.
  • Support your team and others in the company. We’re in this together!

What We’re Looking For

  • Production experience, preferably at scale, in backend development.

  • Strong competencies in problem solving and software design.
  • A driving interest in TDD and testing, intentional design, and building quality software that lasts.
  • Independent, hardworking, and collaborative, with a phenomenal team work ethic.
  • A focus on building and being part of a great, diverse engineering culture.
  • Ideal candidates will have experience with Elixir and/or the Erlang ecosystem, but this is not a deal breaker if you have other applicable experience.

Perks

  • A strong equity package and strong benefits.

  • Coworkers who value teamwork, believe strongly in diversity, and are actively building a fantastic engineering culture. Community values diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
  • WeWork co-working space membership.

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