Lead Senior Database & Backend Engineer

Huck Adventures; Broomfield (CO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Huck Adventures in Broomfield, Colorado is seeking a Senior Database & Backend Engineer to lead the design and deployment of our backend architecture and API management platform. You will help solve scalability challenges in delivering our outdoor app while leading the development of our database and ETL workflows.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with RDBMS, NoSQL, and cloud services, particularly Google Cloud. This position offers a unique opportunity to build our systems from the ground up in a dynamic startup environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL (Firebase Firestore, Cloud Firestore, PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Experience with Google Cloud functions or Firebase Cloud functions handling at least 2,000,000 users.
• Experience writing in TypeScript or comparable language.

Responsibilities

• Design Backend Architecture, API and database for the Huck App.
• Deliver a multi-cloud, loosely-coupled, distributed, and highly available platform.
• Be the subject matter expert for the distributed data platform.

Skills

RDBMS and NoSQL

Google Cloud Functions

Application Deployment

TypeScript

Distributed Data Systems

Database Architectures

AI & Machine Learning

Job description

Huck Adventures brings people outside to explore the world together. The outdoor app makes it easy for people to connect with one another and get the educational and safety resources they need for great adventures. Tailored to outdoor recreation, the app includes availability and skillset matching, communication, event, education, and safety tools all in one place. Huck Adventures partners with like‑minded organizations and donates 10 percent of its profits to environmental and outdoor recreation nonprofits, so everyone can enjoy the adventure and beauty of the great outdoors. Learn more at www.huckadventures.com.

We expect a lot. Our culture is unique and we live by our values, so it's worth learning more about Huck Culture online.

We are a tight and driven team with big goals, so we seek individuals who are truly passionate about their work.

We are a start‑up aiming to be a big company and have co‑founder opportunities available.

Job Description

As the Senior Database & Backend Engineer you will be responsible for building our architecture and API management platform to run our Flutter app on Firebase using Angoliga, cloud functions and other Google Cloud Services. You will solve business, operations and security challenges that arise in these developer ecosystems by proxying API traffic between provider and consumer.

Huck is looking for a lead backend engineer to architect, build, scale and deploy our API, database and ETL workflows. This position offers the rare opportunity to build out our system from the beginning. Below are some of the problems we are trying to solve:

• Multi‑attribute locality based recommendations
• Architecting realtime and precomputed aggregate data
• Scalable API (both performance‑wise and manageability for our front end team)

Responsibilities

• Design Backend Architecture, API and database for the Huck App.
• Deliver multi‑cloud, loosely‑coupled, distributed, and highly available platform.
• Be the subject matter expert for the distributed data platform in a multi‑cloud environment and private cloud (on‑prem).
• Be responsible for the design, deploy, and operations of the distributed data.

Qualifications

• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL (Firebase Firestore, Cloud Firestore, and PostgreSQL/MySQL).
• Experience with Google Cloud functions or Firebase Cloud functions handling at least 2,000,000 users and scaling.
• Experience with application deployment.
• Experience writing in TypeScript or comparable language.
• Experience with distributed data systems.
• Experience creating the architecture for database deployments on Cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience in AI & Machine Learning technologies.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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