Backend Engineer

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Beograd

online intervju

21.12.2021.

Description

We are looking for a strong software engineer who is passionate about large-scale systems. As a backend software engineer, you will be responsible for architecting and building the services that drive our mission critical high-availability applications. An ideal candidate will care about producing clean, maintainable, well-tested code and will do this as a member of a team, helping the group come up with solutions to balance performance, cost, and quality. We are looking for someone with experience in writing code for a 24x7 commercial service.

Our backend stack includes Elixir, Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ. Our production deployments are on AWS. A qualified candidate will have full support in learning all of the technologies in our stack.

Responsibilities

Build APIs to support mobile apps, web UIs, and data ingestion applications
Analyze and improve the efficiency, scalability, and reliability of our backend systems.
Write robust code; demonstrate its robustness through automated tests.
Work with Product, Frontend, Data Engineering, and QA teams, helping the team respond quickly and effectively to business needs and build quality software.
Debug crash logs and investigate bug reports from users.
Improving application performance through code refactoring and organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or at least 2 years of practical experience
Expertise in at least one of our core languages: Ruby, Python, Elixir, or Javascript
Familiarity with, or strong interest in learning, our core backend technologies like Elixir, Phoenix, Rails, Node.js, and RabbitMQ
Familiarity with database and data storage technologies like PostgreSQL, Redis, and ElasticSearch
Comfortable diving into and learning to effectively build and operate in every part of our stack
Availability to overlap to U.S. time zones as needed