Back End Developer

Title: Backend Engineer

Location: Argentina, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Guatemala

Total Years Of Exp: 8+ years’ experience mandatory

Requited: 6 hours overlap with PST (Pacific Standard Time)

Notice Period: Maximum 2 weeks (All notice periods must end before the start date)

Mandatory Skills: Go, Python, GraphQL, REST/RESTful APIs, Strong communication

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.

What you'll do

• 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 junio engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also can’t afford show-stopping bugs. We need someone who can balance speed with quality while quickly building brand-new products.

Who You Might Be

• 8+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 8+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
• 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
• Experience mentoring engineers, owning team processes, and leading cross-functional projects is preferred.
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure
• Excellent communication skills. You partner effectively with teams in a fully remote environment and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.