Backend Software Engineer (San Francisco Bay Area / Silicon Valley)

  • $105,000.00 - $180,000.00/year
  • Join our fast-moving, values-driven team! 
    Threadloom is looking for an experienced backend software engineer.

    You will design the platforms for every product we deliver to millions of end users.  This includes building the servers and pipelines to manage billions of documents, and driving the inputs for our machine learning models.  You will also lead development of all production cloud systems and scaling our data pipelines from 50 to 100s of qps.

    The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about working with lots of data and enjoys learning about and developing on new cloud technologies.  This person is also excited about scaling and optimizing servers, and connecting this work directly to products that impact millions of users.


    Qualifications

    Required

    Experience
    • 5+ years of relevant work experience
    • Launching products people love, at scale
    • Building scalable backends, RESTful web services and APIs 
    • Designing and implementing data pipelines and warehouses, and optimizing server performance
    • Deploying production cloud services (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure)

    Languages
    • Python (or background in Java and willing to learn Python)


    Preferred

    Experience
    • Client integration experience
    • Email campaign management
    • Search indexing, ranking
    • Responsive frontends
    • iOS/Android development

    Languages
    • PHP
    • JavaScript
    • C#


    More information

    We are a collaborative team of creative, resourceful, and humble engineers who believe in solving real-world problems. We care about our work and about each other.  Our projects include web services, machine learning, search backends, email marketing, apps, and more.  We move quickly, operate without ownership boundaries, and collaborate on strategy and product priorities.

    We're looking for teammates who: 
    • care about building products that make the world a better place;
    • play well with others and communicate thoughtfully and respectfully;
    • eagerly dive in to creatively tackle supposedly unsolvable problems; and
    • never stop learning and enjoy sharing with others.

    Learn more about what it's like to work at Threadloom at https://www.threadloom.com/jobs.

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