As a Senior Backend Engineer on our Applications Team, you will be a key player in defining how this insight is delivered to customers. As an Applications Team member your remit will extend beyond just the ownership of delivery - you will be assisting in the research, refinement and execution of the features used to expose the value collated in our Data Platform to our customers in intuitive and novel ways.
Responsibilities
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Develop features and improvements to NewsWhip products in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity.
Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions
Qualifications
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5+ years working in a Product Engineering team
Experience collaborating with Product, Design and Frontend Engineering disciplines to deliver data-insight led features including activities relating to scoping, prototyping \& research, identification of risks/uncertainties etc.
Knowledge of software design principles and leading software development practices
Willingness to get things done, learn new things, take initiative and challenge existing assumptions and conventions
Experience with Java and/or Scala
Experience building and deploying to any cloud service (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
Experience with building APIs for exposing rich datasets
Required Skills
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Working with the Lightbend Reactive Platform of Scala, Akka or Play Framework
Building an architecture to support rapid and stable product iteration cycles
Significant development experience working on customer-facing and web-based systems
Experience working in an agile environment with iterative development and fast feedback
Working with storage systems such as Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Kafka and MySQL
Experience with observability principals (Instrumentation, Tracing, Telemetry)
Experience with IaC and DevOps methodologies
Knowledge of basic Linux administration, Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform
Pay range and compensation package
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Competitive salary
Health insurance
Pension
Great working environment - remote first or hybrid model
An opportunity to help define an entirely new industry category
Equal Opportunity Statement
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We believe in maintaining a friendly work environment, a healthy work-life balance, and compensating our employees fairly for their input. You’ll be part of a team that believes in mutual support and education, and for a company where a work week isn’t just the gap between weekends, but an opportunity to do work that is impactful and innovative. We also love eating and socializing together, annual and seasonal company and team retreats, healthy and unhealthy snacks and other perks.