Staff Backend Software Engineer

What you’ll be doing Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to translate product vision into robust technical solutions

Design and build scalable APIs using the Elixir Phoenix framework that power our core products and services

Architect efficient data models and write optimized PostgresQL and Cassandra queries, creating high performance indexes to support large-scale data workloads

Working with in-memory data stores, such as Redis, to improve scalability and responsiveness

Lead complex debugging and incident resolution across the entire stack using logging and monitoring tools

Guide and mentor engineers through thoughtful code reviews, sharing expertise and helping elevate the team’s technical capabilities

Drive improvements to engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Ensure coherence of all aspects of projects as an integrated system and uphold overall technical quality

Contribute to technical strategy by identifying opportunities for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends

Help define and evolve development practices, including technology choices, architectural patterns, workflows and coding standards to support a high-performing engineering organization

We’ll be excited if you have Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus

6+ years of experience with Elixir designing and building high-performance RESTful web services serving billions of requests per day

High-level experience with SQL infrastructure and data modeling

Comfortable with change: ability to demonstrate comfort with ambiguity, adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic setting

Data-driven but also imaginative and intuitive in coming up with ideas and solutions

Must possess a start-up mindset: hunger to learn quickly and the ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced team environment

A BIG PLUS if you have Experience with GoLang or Python

Expertise with video streaming libraries such as FFmpeg or GStreamer

Experience working with video/audio codecs

Experience working with live streaming encoders and WebRTC

Experience working with AI/ML models and applications

Experience in building large-scale applications with Python

Experience writing GraphQL queries and mutations