Senior Backend Engineer - Profiles

Hi, I'm Julia, Engineering Manager at Customer.io . I'm seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing Engineering team.

Customer.io is looking for collaborative senior scaling developers who love solving interesting puzzles and are excited to help us build a scalable platform that our customers love. Our small, remote-first team is fun-loving, passionate, and highly effective. We offer many opportunities to grow and refine your skills while having a significant impact. Our team members have backgrounds in various industries, from AdTech to Gaming. We believe embracing our unique perspectives and expertise is the key to our success as a collaborative team.

As a distributed company, we value diversity and are committed to giving you the flexibility and freedom to work from anywhere in the world on a schedule that fits your family and your life.

Some things you'll do

• Be a model and mentor for writing well-architected, well-tested, and easy-to-understand services in Go that help our customers easily send timely & relevant messages at scale.
• Apply your unique perspective to help us define and build the next generation of features and infrastructure needed to help our customers and company flourish.
• Work with our tech support teams to diagnose operational issues and help our customers achieve their goals with our product.
• Take an active role in a friendly, supportive team that encourages you and the company to grow as individuals, professionals, and teams.
• Mentor your coworkers through code review, pair programming, team collaboration, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices.
  
  

What we're looking for

• A track record of delivering performant and scalable distributed applications on cloud infrastructure in Golang
• A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make great decisions in an empathetic and respectful way
• Experience working with customers and applying a deep understanding of their needs to produce timely solutions to their real-world problems.
• A solid understanding of scalability problems and experience building out performant distributed applications on cloud infrastructure.
• Comfort working in UNIX environments and applying modern collaborative development practices.
• Experience in working with RDB systems, preferably MySQL.
• Ability to deliver high-quality solutions quickly and without mentorship.
• Experience working within a distributed company is preferred.
• Preferably 7+ years of relevant experience
• Able to work core hours of 8AM-11AM EST to interact with the team.