Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & Acquisition

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

Job summary

Huck Adventures is looking for a backend engineer with around 5 years of experience in building distributed systems. You will develop business logic and work on Java-based microservices while engaging in user acquisition experiments.

The role requires strong software engineering skills, effective communication, and the ability to collaborate across teams. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and experience with A/B testing and related technologies.

Qualifications

• Around 5 years of experience in crafting robust, high-scale, distributed systems.
• Experience in driving business impact using software engineering skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written or verbal form.

Responsibilities

• Build business logic and protocols for UI partners.
• Develop Java-based microservices.
• Experiment with user acquisition and retention.

Skills

Java programming

A/B testing

RESTful API design

ElasticSearch

Kibana

Kafka

AWS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

T11D's engineers develop the next-generation technologies for the outdoor industry that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, multi dimensional GPS tracking, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to T11D’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

As a backend engineer on this team, you will build the business logic and protocols that allow our UI partners to build lightweight and flexible flows for the web, and mobile devices. We like to experiment constantly, which means we are continually A/B testing our user acquisition and retention through experiments in the sign-up and on-boarding funnels. You will develop Java-based microservices and work with many services and underlying technologies core to our product.

Does this sound like something you’d like to do? Awesome, let’s talk about specifics.

Job Description

What do we need from you?

You have around 5 years of experience crafting robust, high-scale, distributed systems in production environments

You love driving real business impact by applying your software engineering and analytical skills

You are passionate about leading initiatives and collaborating across Data Science, Design, Engineering and Product teams

You are highly motivated to deliver high quality solutions quickly and without mentorship

You can communicate effectively in written or verbal form

Your co-workers think of you as someone who is kind and does excellent work

Qualifications

What are some nice to haves?

You have optimized a consumer facing product through A/B tests

You have worked in Java or other JVM languages, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kafka, Hive or AWS

You are proficient with RESTful API design and implementation

You understand what being on-call means and can resolve production outages independently

You have experience working in the Growth domain and especially in EMEA or LATAM

You have a Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field

Additional Information

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

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