Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Cost Engineering)

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Remote Canada. This remote role is open only to candidates residing in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.Full-TimeSenior
Salary153,000 - 213,000 CAD per year
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Job Details

Experience
4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale
Required Skills
AWSPythonKotlinKubernetesMySQLDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Have 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
  • Use backend programming languages such as Python or Kotlin.
  • Have experience developing highly available distributed systems.
  • Have experience with technologies such as AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes.
  • Have experience supporting scale-up and scale-down for large sales events, such as Prime Day or Black Friday/Cyber Monday.
  • Have tuned autoscaling, CPU and memory, and multithreading for compute-type workloads.
  • Have experience defining technical plans for significant features or system components with simple, extensible designs.
  • Write high-quality code that is understandable and usable by others.
  • Be proficient in making significant changes in a large codebase and developing tools and practices to do so safely.
  • Have equivalent practical experience or a bachelor's degree in a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team.
  • Lead engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems and support them throughout delivery.
  • Collaborate with product management, design, and analytics during ideation and product development.
  • Articulate technical constraints and partner on decisions that consider risks and trade-offs.
  • Identify project, process, technology, and business issues and lead efforts to solve them.
  • Create and monitor metrics, escalate operational concerns, and support on-call and keep-the-lights-on efforts.
  • Set or improve code review and design standards, and advocate for standards through writing and tech talks.
  • Develop team talent by providing feedback and guidance and leading by example.
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