[Wattpad] Senior Engineer, Core Platforms

WEBTOON Entertainment Inc. (Wattpad & WEBTOON Family of Brands); Toronto; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading storytelling platform company in Ontario is looking for a Backend Developer to create robust backend systems. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of software development experience, with skills in Go and PHP, and familiarity with cloud services. The role offers competitive salary and benefits including wellness accounts, flexible work options, and supportive career development opportunities.

Benefits

Career development support

Top industry health benefits

Health/wellness account

401K Contributions (USA)

Generous vacation policy

Corporate gym discounts

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience in a software development role.
• Skill in Go and PHP.
• Experience with cloud platforms for at least 3 years.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building functionality on a large-scale distributed system.
• Writing new features, tools and services in Go and PHP.
• Improving reliability and performance of existing systems.

Skills

Software Development Experience

Go

PHP

Distributed Systems Monitoring

Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP)

Docker

Kubernetes or ECS

Debugging Systems

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through webnovel stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Representing a tapestry of cultures and languages, people around the world come to Wattpad every month to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling with our global team, and write your next chapter with us!

Wattpad is part of the WEBTOON family of brands, the largest storytelling platform in the world that enables creators and users to discover, create, and share stories. With over 24 million creators and ~170 million active users per month, we are truly empowering creation by anyone, for everyone.

You will be joining the Core Platforms team. You'll get the opportunity to create and work on the backend platform and systems that power Wattpad. The purpose of the team is to establish a robust set of centralized tools that backend developers can use to implement secure, performant, consistent code quickly to increase the productivity and happiness of Wattpad engineers.

Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 45k requests every second. You’ll be assisting in modernizing our backend platform and systems which currently include our monolith, microservices and backend infrastructure.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large-scale distributed system serving millions of people per day.
• Writing new features, tools and services in Go and PHP.
• Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems.
• Writing unit and service tests for all your code.
• Defining best practices and providing mentorship and support to other engineers.
• Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues.
• Advocating for the adoption of tools across the engineering org.

What we're looking for:

• 5-7+ years of experience in a prior software development role
• Experience with monitoring distributed systems at scale
• Developing scalable, robust, and maintainable code and fault-tolerant services/systems
• Skill in Go and PHP
• Experience working with cloud platforms as a service (AWS, GCP, etc.) for at least 3 years
• Knowledge of Docker
• Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or ECS
• Comprehension of complex, custom-built codebases, and a history of thorough feature testing and migration
• Comfort debugging systems at different layers of the stack
• Comfort working with a team and independently

Bonus Points For:

• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform & Ansible
• Hands-on experience with CI systems such as TravisCI
• Passion for security and privacy

What we offer:

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
• Top industry health benefits, including vision and dental
• Your own health/wellness account to spend each year
• RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
• Generous vacation and Maternity/Parental leave top-up program
• Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
• Work from almost anywhere in the world for part of the year

Wattpad is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate. Period. Wattpad welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

We have taken a leadership position on creating a culture and an organization that truly values diversity. We are committed to fostering a global team that reflects the diversity of the Wattpad community.

Career development opportunities and top industry health benefits are available. The salary range for this position is $120,000 - $160,000 per year, listed in CAD.