Staff Engineer- Backend

Job Description

• Evaluate requirements, define technical specifications, review design and communicate to stakeholders. • Lead, organize, and participate in cross-team discussions on system design and architecture • Participate in interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring junior engineers • Write scalable systems to store/index large amounts of data and performant queries/aggregations on that data • Participate in an on-call rotation to manage incidents and support the services you have developed • Drive root cause identification and issue resolution with the various data infrastructure teams.

Qualifications

• You're a people leader with the technical chops to drive work forward, mentor those around you, and raise the talent bar for the team. Staff/Lead has implications of leadership and we need that from the start. • You have experience in backend development with Scala, Java, Golang, or Python. Scala or Java preferred • Experience with PostgreSQL or other SQL databases. We also use DynamoDB and others. • Kafka or would be great • Competency with modern CI/CD tooling like Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible & Jenkins • A desire to see features through from development to deployment in production environments • You believe in small and frequent product releases and deployments. • Experience in an on-call rotation and the mindset that you and your team are responsible for the product support for the products you build and deploy.

Benefits

• Health, Dental, Vision- Insurance • 401k and Life Insurance options • Unlimited PTO with 15+ days of recognized holidays • Quarterly Wellness days • 100% remote with the option to be in the office if you want (Bay Area, Austin, Denver, NYC) • 3 months of paid parental leave