Overview
Our Client is a trailblazing tech startup specializing in providing advanced privacycentric tools designed to protect and empower kids and teens online. We have secured pivotal partnerships with key industry leaders in the gaming industry and are venturebacked by leading global VCs. We are poised for unprecedented growth and expansion in the coming year.
As a Senior Backend Engineer you will play a pivotal role in shaping our public API and backend and providing a positive digital experience for our game studio partners and their endusers.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be a key contributor to the design implementation testing and documentation of our public APIs
- Lead the launch and scaling of our product to support tens of partners and tens of millions of concurrent users
- Assess and enhance the scalability of the database layer. Lead the design strategic migration and optimization of customer data
- Ensure that backend systems and services operate smoothly in production by triaging and resolving operational issues
- Be a champion for security best practices within the backend to protect sensitive user data against emerging threats
- Conduct code reviews and mentorship to elevate team capabilities and product quality
- Help build a positive and inclusive work culture
Minimum Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- 5 years of engineering experience
- Experience with Golang Redis DynamoDB PostgreSQL S3 and Kubernetes
- Experience shipping mature backend systems at high scale
Preferred Requirements:
- Experience working with in similar role in the gaming or technology industry
- Desire to work in an earlystage fastpaced environment with a degree of ambiguity
- Excited to primarily be an individual contributor with a ton of ownership
- Ability to work during a daily overlap of a few hours with the rest of the team (starting 14:00 UTC)
- Excellent communication skills in English
Remote Work :
No