Software Engineer, Backend

What You'll Do

• Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
• Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our services
• Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation
• Address critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently, and addressing Node event loop blockages.

What You'll Bring

• A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impact
• Experience in API latency optimization
• Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably Postgres
• Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects
• Experience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search engines
• Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Opensearch

Nice To Haves

• Diversity of perspectives and interests. We hope to build a team that is curious, and open-minded.
• Experience working with systems & data at scale. May be building large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or generally working with larger production systems
• Advanced proficiency in optimizing serverless workloads on AWS
• Experience with our current tech stack:
• React, Typescript, Python
• AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch
• IaC: Terraform…