Backend Engineer

Work Description

• Design and implement REST apis that talk to multiple data stores, optimize for low latency, monitor, handle errors, cache etc.
• Write lots of SQL queries to support APIs, design relational db schema, do complex joins, build indexes, optimize queries with scale.
• Design and implement reliable, fault tolerant distributed systems.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience or equivalent maturity in design/implementation of backend systems.
• Love for writing code. Obsession for releasing code that works.
• Demonstrated hunger for learning & self improvement
• Humility in acknowledging mistakes and collaborating with a team of equals.
• Comfort with working in a 10 member startup.

Bonus

• Kubernetes and/or dev-ops experience.
• node.js experience.
• Front end dev experience in React.js or Android native.