Senior Backend Engineer

ABOUT US

CTD is a Silicon Valley VC-backed start-up company created in February 2019 with the mission of revolutionizing the way professional relationships are managed. We automatically organize all of your contacts & opportunities by relationship strength so making new connections is easier.

The company is currently distributed with offices in San Francisco and Belgrade. We are focused on product-market fit with fast development cycles and constant user feedback.

Our next major challenge is to architect for scale. The product is a hybrid consumer/business application building a behavior-based social graph based on massive amounts of historical emails and other data sources.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will work with the application and data products team to gather and transform data from disparate data sources into structures that are leveraged by the applications.
• Work on integration with public and 3rd party data sources, developing batch processing tools to download or scrape content and efficiently update production database systems.
• This position will report directly to the Backend Team Lead but will be expected to work closely with relevant members of the Engineering, Product, and Design teams.
• Work on existing and new microservices, subsystems, and APIs to ensure secure scalable infrastructure
• Work with the team to design and develop a system that supports massive concurrent workloads integrating and augmenting data from users and 3rd party sources
• Work with the team to define standards and guidelines for coding, testing, deployment, and configuration management
• Once in 3 months, you will join the one week on-call rotation. At that time you will be responsible for availability, latency, performance, change management, monitoring, major incident management, and refining software enabling these key technical and business functions.

REQUIREMENTS

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics
• Proven work experience as a Back-end developer (minimum 7+ years of experience)
• Experience with ES6 and/or TypeScript
• Experience with Node.js
• Strong SQL knowledge
• Strong JavaScript technical skills
• Proven experience working with Microservices architecture
• Experience with message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures
• Analytical and time management skills
• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude
• Quick learning ability and the willingness to learn more
• Experience in API design, documentation, and testing including familiarity with tools like Swagger and Postman
• Great knowledge of the English language, conversational and written

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience working with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience using the Google Cloud Platform

WE OFFER

• Private health insurance
• FitPass
• A work environment that will help you grow and learn
• Features designed, developed, and deployed in days, not months
• Fast-paced San Francisco startup experience
• Tough technical problems that were not previously solved
• Hybrid model of work, flexible working hours
• Breakfast, snacks & beverages in the office
• Team-buildings during workdays
• Fun and inclusive atmosphere with high-performing colleagues
• Modern offices with a pool, leisure areas, sauna, and gym
• US and Serbian holidays are non-working