ELX-007 Sr. Backend Engineer
Toronto or San Mateo
Our client is the world's leading immersive "shoppertainment" platform with shoppable video, live streaming commerce, and monetization capabilities powering over 600 direct-to-consumer brands, retailers and media publishers worldwide. Our client enables its customers to create and host native, shoppable video content for engaging product discovery, seamless shopping experiences and ultimately, a deeper emotional connection with consumers. Pandemic- accelerated, our client has experienced 10x year-over-year growth, bringing TikTok-like interactive video experiences, all by adding just one line of HTML code to their own website. Their team more than doubled in the last 18 months to over 200 people strong in several countries including the US, Japan, India, Russia, Poland, Brazil, and Canada with backgrounds in technology, media, and entertainment. At the heart, they’re an inspirational and diverse team of creators, entrepreneurs, storytellers, and data geeks driven by the future of video transforming eCommerce. The company is backed by IDG Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and GSR Ventures, with over $80 million in capital raised to date.
Summary We’re looking for a talented Sr. Backend Engineer to join a small global team who will bring technical expertise and leadership along with hands-on development of backend software development and SaaS solutions.
What you'll be doing:
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and the rest of the engineering team to build elegant and scalable product experience across multiple platforms
- Design new API's to be used in our core products
- Debug issues across entire stack, using tools like Sentry & AppSignal
- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
- Review code by your peers on GitHub, offering help and insight from your experience
- Ensure coherence of all aspects of projects as an integrated system and uphold overall technical quality
- Strategize and develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
- Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
We'll be excited if you have:
- Master’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field
- 8+ years of designing and implementing involved infrastructure projects, such as distributed cache, Hadoop/Spark stacks, elastic search, or ad servers.
- 5+ years of experience designing high-performance RESTful web services serving billions of requests per day.
- 3+ years of experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Druid
- Advanced production with Elixir and Phoenix experience a big plus
- Fluent in Phoenix and High-level experience with SQL infrastructure and modeling.
- Comfortable with change: ability to demonstrate comfort with ambiguity, adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic setting
- Data-driven but also imaginative and intuitive in coming up with ideas and solutions
- Must possess a start-up mindset: hunger to learn quickly and the ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced team environment