Senior Software Engineer

What You Will Do:

We are looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer who thrives on building commercial products and plays a key role in delivering reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. You will lead projects from start to finish, collaborating with Product Managers, and UX Designers to define requirements, implement solutions, and ensure ongoing success post-deployment. You’ll focus on simplicity while contributing technical insights to enhance the system's performance, stability, and user experience.

• Participate in all stages of the software development life cycle, from design and development to deployment and maintenance.
• Follow clean code principles, using best practices to write secure, testable, and well-documented software.
• Work closely with a global team, including engineers, product managers, and UX designers, to build a stable, high-performance platform.
• Implement comprehensive testing and performance tuning to ensure system stability and uptime.

Responsibilities:

• Translate requirements, estimate effort, and address or escalate blockers as needed.
• Own end-to-end projects, understanding and contributing to all aspects (infrastructure, application tiers, and data tiers).
• Write clean, maintainable code that adheres to best practices in readability, design patterns, reusability, and testing.
• Continuously monitor performance metrics and recommend improvements or refactors.

Our Tech Stack:

• Node.js, Typescript, Python.
• PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Kafka, Apache Spark.
• Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, AWS.

Technical Skills: 

• 5+ years of experience working in agile environments (ideally Scrum), collaborating with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, product).
• Strong proficiency in server-side development with hands-on experience in building scalable and reliable back-end systems.
• Proficient in Node.js, Typescript, Scala, and Python.
• Advanced experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL), distributed systems (CockroachDB, ClickHouse), and large-scale data systems with ETL processes (Apache Spark).
• Familiarity with Kafka for building real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures.
• Expertise in using Docker for containerization, Jenkins for CI/CD, and Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, etc.) for cloud-based application deployment and management.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs and integrating with external services.
• Lead code reviews to ensure best practices, maintainability, and continuous improvement of the codebase.
• Strong understanding of building scalable and high-performance back-end systems, optimizing for low-latency and high-throughput.
• Ability to write and maintain unit and integration tests based on acceptance criteria, ensuring code quality and reliability.
• Proficiency with version control tools, particularly Git, for collaborative development and code management.

Communication and Collaboration:

• Strong attention to documentation and maintaining standards across projects.
• Ability to present and defend technical decisions with confidence.
• Skilled at estimating project complexity based on early documentation and discussions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions clearly.