Senior Backend Engineer, Core Platform

YOUR ROLE

Fishbowl is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer for Fishbowl’s core platform to join our team and help build the next social network for professionals. We’re passionate about connecting professionals through authentic conversation, and at Fishbowl we’re bringing together world-class talent from different experiences, disciplines, and areas of study to produce a new type of online network.

Fishbowl connects professionals with colleagues in their industry to have candid and relevant workplace conversations. Many users describe Fishbowl as a “Twitter meets LinkedIn”. The platform initially opened exclusively to the Consulting, Accounting, and Advertising industries and has since captured more than 40% of US professionals within each. We've focused on proving out incredible engagement stats, and we're just getting started on scaling the platform to the rest of the professional world.
 
As Fishbowl’s Senior Backend Engineer you will work hand in hand with our Lead Backend Engineer in the day to day technical operations of the engineering team and contribute directly to the core platform’s APIs and codebase. You will be hands on in working and communicating directly with our mobile platform teams (on iOS and Android) and our web application team, to help ship frequent releases to millions of professionals using our platform to converse transparently with others in their industry.

This is a high performance role working alongside a team of dedicated engineers excited about scaling a new type of social network in use by millions of professionals.
 
WHAT YOU’LL DO
 
  • Work with a diverse set of talented engineers tasked with development covering a wide range of product, infrastructure, and ops/service engineering efforts
  • Collaborate and communicate with product oriented founders to execute against a broad set of goals, and help build the core platform upon which Fishbowl’s next generation of products will be built
  • Architect new APIs used to support a unique social identity framework and secure privacy dynamics
  • Work with mobile and web app developers to integrate APIs and ship product on timelines coordinated with PMs
  • Contribute to the development of a real-time content personalization layer in Fishbowl’s user feeds on a scale that can support millions of active users
  • Work primarily in our Node.js / MongoDB stack


WHAT YOU’LL BRING
  • B.S. in computer science, statistics, mathematics or similar technical degree
  • 6-8+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Experience developing backend stacks and APIs for mobile applications, preferably consumer products
  • Strong experience architecting with MongoDB and other NoSQL database management systems
  • Strong experience with data structures including embedded key-value stores like RocksDB and in-memory data structure stores like Redis 
  • Strong experience with traditional web service stacks, Node.Js, and MongoDB
  • Experience with Agile/Scrum and balancing a process that’s results oriented with a track record of delivering features and functionality on time with high quality
  • Comfort in an early-stage startup environment, and working through changes in priority of tasks
  • The ability to make difficult decisions, manage performance, and hold a high bar for the quality of code you ship
  • Ability to articulate technical decisions effectively to a team of stakeholders
  • An interest in consumer products and a passion for community building
  • Bonus points for experience with machine learning and graph databases
  • Bonus points for experience working with remote teams
  • Bonus points for any experience managing a small team of engineers


WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE
  • Deeply collaborative environment. You can expect a team that listens to you, challenges you, and wants to see you succeed. Think Yes-And culture (if you know a bit about improv!)
  • Join a Series-A stage company, backed and advised by world-class investors behind startup unicorns like Slack and Snapchat.
  • Competitive Salary, along with Competitive Equity (Stock Option) Plans, for real ownership in Fishbowl
  • Full Healthcare Coverage
  • $500 contribution to classes or self-improvement. We're fans of constantly learning!

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