Senior Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop new products, redesign and scale existing features, and perform research and testing on Product concepts. You will actively participate in all stages of a feature or product’s life by working closely with our founders and product team.

Our tech stack, which handles +30k QPS with +100B records in our database, includes:

Our backend stack

• Java / Groovy / Grails / Tomcat

• Cassandra

Our data stack

• Apache Spark and Zeppelin

• Cassandra

• Elasticsearch / Kibana

Our DevOps stack

• Continuous integration via Gitlab, excellent automated test coverage and code review process

• Continuous rollout (several releases per week) with one-step build, test & deployment

What will you do?

• Work closely with Product to design and develop new or updated features of our products
  
• Participate in code reviews as both a reviewer and submitter
  
• Provide technical support to our internal and external users
  
• Develop and execute technical vision and architecture for Privacy-By-Design features such as Encryption and Merge Instructions
  
• Scale the JVM-based backend, Apache Cassandra and Elasticsearch/Kibana to handle an order of magnitude traffic volume
  
• Identify opportunities to improve the processes around topics like application security, CI/CD, infrastructure and data processing

Qualifications

• Someone with several years of work experience, preferably in a highly scalable technology environment
  
• A background in Engineering or Computer Science
  
• Enjoys collaborating with others and has excellent communication skills
  
• Ideally, someone with experience and skills in Java or a language of the JVM (Groovy, Scala, ...), Databases (Cassandra, SQL), Data processing frameworks (Spark, Elastic Stack)
  
• Loves learning about new technologies and related tools to introduce to the company to grow the product and development environment
  
• An open-minded individual who will thrive in a startup environment. Responsibility, autonomy, enthusiasm, humility, and drive are key characteristics required to be successful in this role