What you’ll be doing
Help drive the architectural vision and strategy on the team to design and deliver powerful new enterprise APIs and functionality for our customers.
Orchestrate and lead major technical projects across teams as necessary.
Design, architect, code, and document large-scale distributed systems.
Serve as a subject matter expert on building scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems.
Mentor and coach less experienced engineers on sound engineering practices and technical leadership.
Collaborate with Product, Security, and other engineering teams to define and continually improve our platform and architecture.
Drive technical decision-making while striving to hit the right balance between factors such as simplicity, flexibility, reliability, and performance.
Participate in the team's on-call rotations to make sure we offer our customers the best availability for our services.
What you’ll bring to the role
8+ years of experience working on large-scale systems or services.
You bring solid architectural and security knowledge, backed by experience in designing, implementing, and evolving complex distributed systems.
You have worked on projects that required close collaboration with external teams and have experience making those a success.
You have solid previous experience with Node.js (JavaScript or TypeScript) to build scalable backend services and create and maintain public and internal APIs.
Experience building full-stack applications with an understanding of React.
A good understanding of SQL (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases and how to optimize them for performance under load.
Experience with containerization (Docker) and cloud environments like AWS and Azure.
You are a good mentor and communicator, and can explain complex concepts simply.
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PID Number : P24578
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