Golang developer

Mandatory Skills: Cassandra, Golang or Python (Golang highly preferred, backend Python - not data Python)

Total years of exp: 8+

Relevant experience: At least 2-3 years working on a single product, with the same company, in a senior or leadership role

About the Role

Our mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. We are a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.

Job Responsibilities

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 5+ years experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Rust, Ruby)
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
• A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.

• 3+ years' of development experience