Backend Engineer

Krea; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A creative technology company in the United States is seeking a developer to design and maintain private APIs, improve database performance and scalability, and implement enterprise features. The role focuses on enhancing web and mobile applications, ensuring observability, and contributing to open-source projects. The ideal candidate will have experience in system architecture and performance optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain private APIs for our main web and mobile applications.
• Design database models.
• Fix issues with our system related to HTTP/3 connections.
• Improve database and infrastructure performance with caching solutions.
• Profile and find bottlenecks for HTTP/WebSockets requests.
• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service.
• Scale our service via architectural changes and infrastructure improvements.
• Open-source non-trivial innovations from our work.
• Design and iterate over software development processes.
• Add enterprise-grade features like Audit Logs, SAML/SSO, SCIM.

Job description

What you'll do

• Design, implement, deploy, and maintain private APIs for our main web and mobile applications

• Design database models

• Fix issues with our system that, among other things, may be related to how HTTP/3 handles client-side connections to our processes

• Improve database and infrastructure performance by implementing caching solutions or better connection pooling

• Profile and find bottlenecks for many types of HTTP/WebSockets requests to enable real-time image generation—and even video!

• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents

• Scale our service via architectural changes as well as infrastructure improvements

• Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product

• Design and iterate over software development processes so that we can build an web-native and AI-native creative tools for people

• Professionalise our main product by adding enterprise-grade features such as Audit Logs, SAML/SSO, SCIM