Senior Backend Engineer (Singapore Remote)

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💎 Seniority level: Senior

📍 Location: Singapore

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Goodnotes👥 101-250💰 $6,000,000 Seed almost 5 years agoComputer Consumer Apps Software

🪄 Skills: AWSBackend DevelopmentSQLCloud ComputingJVMKotlinKubernetesQASoftware ArchitectureAlgorithmsAPI testingData StructuresgRPCREST APIWebRTCCI/CDTerraformMicroservicesJSONData modelingSoftware EngineeringDebugging

Requirements:

Mastery in at least one JVM programming language. We mainly use Kotlin, but we’re open to Java and Scala
A good knowledge of idiomatic Kotlin and familiarity with Kotlin concurrency model is your extra advantage
Experience running high-performance and high-load JVM based workloads on Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS) and AWS Lambda services
Good understanding of modern distributed databases (we use CockroachDB so it will be an extra advantage if you worked with CockroachDB open-source or Enterprise in the past especially if you were also involved in setting up and operating self-hosted CRDB clusters)
Expertise in identifying access patterns, defining optimal relational data models and indexing strategies
Knowledge of non-relational distributed databases
Previous experience in building client-facing APIs and deep understanding of various L7 communication protocols (HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, webRTC)
Expertise in cloud storage, deployment and computing. We use AWS but we’re open to other platform experience
Knowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and AWS CDK
An ideal candidate should also have experience in building collaborative real-time tools (e.g. Google Docs, Slack, etc.) and/or data synchronisation/backup solutions (e.g. iCloud, Dropbox)
Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals
You have led the development of complex systems from inception to millions of users
Robust software engineering practices, testing and automation have no secrets for you
Excellent problem-solving and story-telling skills
A love of software craftsmanship, you have a strong desire of self-improvement through side projects and sharing
Good sense of the best tools for any task

Responsibilities:

Architect and design scalable solutions that are easy to maintain to allow the development of exciting features and support more users.
Implement elegant solutions with clean code.
Enable communication across multiple Mobile, Web Frontend, Backend Services and QA teams
Define and drive the completion of new initiatives and features by removing blockers for the team
Continuously improve the development practices through research, automation, documentation and testing
Share your knowledge and experience with the rest of the team

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