Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

Focused on building and operating backend systems, the full-time Senior Software Engineer will design and ship backend services and APIs, model data, and promote engineering excellence while leveraging AI to enhance system capabilities.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with Product and Design to deliver features from ideation through deployment, iterating based on feedback and outcomes
• Design and ship backend services and APIs, owning system design and architecture decisions across service boundaries
• Promote engineering excellence by driving simplicity, strengthening operational health, and upholding quality through automated testing and code reviews

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating backend systems for high-traffic and high-reliability products
• Strong system design skills across distributed systems, including latency, throughput, and durability
• Deep understanding of data modeling and persistence, including tradeoffs around normalization and transactions
• Experience designing service-oriented architectures, including service-to-service communication patterns
• Solid CS fundamentals, proficiency in an OO language (e.g., Java/Kotlin/C#), and understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies