The Role and The Team
In this role you’ll design, build, maintain and scale our backend services, the lifeblood of our products. You’ll be expected to design and code high performance, high scale systems, in collaboration with senior engineers on the team.
Here’s a little about us. Our Engineering group is composed of teams for mobile, front-end, back-end, and operations. This role is part of the back-end team, which we call Platform, the group who builds and maintains the services that power our products. On Platform we design and build for scale, reliability and product agility. That means picking the right tool for the job while being pragmatic and scrappy. We build services in Python and Java using technologies like Cassandra and HBase, Memcache and Redis, Scribe and Storm and Finagle, and, of course, MySQL. Above all we believe bad software penalizes the user and great software gets out of the way.
Responsibilities include:
- Design and develop software features based on visual mockups or user stories
- Maintain the features you are responsible for. Strive to fix problems before customers notice by using heartbeaters, monitoring, cron tools, etc. Monitor them routinely for issues that haven't yet occurred like scaling/growth.
- Take ownership of any step in the software development process, from design through maintenance
- Deliver high quality code while working and communicating in a team environment
- Contribute to the infrastructure that the team leverages for local development
- Extend testing capabilities by writing unit tests and assisting in basic QA testing during new feature development
- May be asked to lead or mentor other team members
