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