Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time Data Systems & Scale

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); In loco; USD 110.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Top market salary

Equity package

401k plan

100% deductible reimbursement for medical

Dental and vision insurance

Gym membership reimbursement

Catered lunches

Work/life balance

Descrizione del lavoro

A dynamic technology company in Boston is seeking a Senior Backend Software Developer to tackle challenging problems related to content marketing solutions. The ideal candidate will have over 4 years of experience, particularly in Python and big data technologies like Kafka and Spark. Competitive salary, equity, and excellent work/life balance are part of the offering. This role encourages mentorship and professional growth in a supportive team environment.

Competenze

• 4+ years of experience in backend software development, preferably in Python.
• Experience with big data technologies and distributed systems.
• Ability to write clean, well-tested code.

Mansioni

• Develop machine learning algorithms for marketing optimization.
• Tune databases to diminish performance bottlenecks.
• Mentor junior developers and engage in pair programming.

Conoscenze

Large scale data intensive applications

Big data processing (Kafka, Spark, Storm)

AWS Deployment

Testing as core process

Mentoring junior developers

Descrizione del lavoro

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Developer to join us working on a suite of productsthat powers content marketing for B2B companies ranging from small startups to multinationalcompanies on the Fortune 500 list

Why Would You Want To Work Here?

● Deep technical challenges on a daily basis as well as a meaningful role in productdevelopment. At the moment our team is working on building a web crawling architecturethat can crawl 10,000,000+ articles a day and make them fully searchable in real time.There is some serious engineering behind making all of that work and we want to findpeople that love tackling hard problems like this head on.

● A very strong team of developers that are focused on helping each other to improve asengineers every day. We write automated tests as part of our development workflow,practice pair programming, perform peer code reviews, and share knowledge in weekly
tech talks.

● Room for growth, we're still a relatively small team but looking to grow significantly thisyear. We have a huge vision and we’re just at the beginning of an immense growth curve inan industry that is exploding.

● All the tools you need to succeed, chose your own computer and gear.

● Focused startup environment that truly values work/life balance. We have an amazingoffice overlooking the Boston Common with a kitchen full of snacks and weekly cateredlunches.

● Top market salary, equity package, 401k plan, Medical with 100% deductiblereimbursement, dental and vision insurance and gym membership reimbursement.

Our ideal candidate:

● Has 4+ years of experience designing and implementing large scale data intensiveapplications, with a preference to python.

● Has experience with big data processing using technologies such as Kafka, Spark or Storm.

● Experience distributing processes across large deployments on platforms such as AWS.

● Feels that testing is a core part of their development process.

● Enjoys mentoring junior developers, pair programming, reviewing code and mentoringother developers.

● Seeks an opportunity to grow into a technical leadership position.

There is always a new and challenging problem to solve. One day you might bedeveloping machine learning algorithms that make recommendations to marketers about how tooptimize their strategy, the next you could be tuning our database to reduce bottlenecks and thenext you could be reviewing and refactoring code that is responsible for crawling millions ofarticles per day. We love people that thrive on solving tough problems with clean, well tested and
scalable code.