Job description

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Job Title: Remote Senior Backend Engineer (100% Work From Home)

Location: Remote from Latin America

Position Type: Full-time

Salary: $7,000 - $8,750 USD/month (depending on experience)

Our Client

Our client's mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. They are a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.

The company’s leadership team comprises both AI technologists from leading organizations including Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Stanford, Caltech, MIT as well as tech consulting veterans from Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, McKinsey, Bain, and more.

Responsibilities:

Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Qualifications, Skills and Key Competencies:

5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
5+ years experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Rust, Ruby)
Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits: