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Senior/Lead Backend Engineer
Job Description
Summary
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you’ll work on a wide range of projects from developing, testing and maintaining our existing applications to creating new features for our existing products. The ideal candidate should have a track record of success in developing and deploying scalable, secure and reliable backend solutions. They should also be comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and be able to communicate effectively with our other teams. The successful candidate should also be familiar with the latest technologies and trends in backend development. A competitive salary will be offered to the right candidate.
What You’ll Do
- Develop, test and maintain backend products and services
- Run high-impact A/B and multivariate testing experiments at scale, analyzing results, and deploying positive changes to reach business goals
- Problem solving: think of and then implement solutions to technical problems presented by the product team
- Design and implement backend server architectures
- Monitor and optimize performance of existing systems
- Work closely with engineering and product teams to ensure successful product delivery
- Implement security best practices to protect customer data
- Work with the team to improve our development processes
- Stay up to date with the latest trends in backend / cloud development
- Work with the support team to optimize / automate the support flow for our user success
- For the Lead Backend Engineer : Managing and leading a team of developers
Requirements
Experience Requirements:
- Ruby on Rails development experience in a production environment
- Scalable development and deployment
- Experience with cloud deployment/ops/optimization
- Experience with terraform or any infra as code tool
- Experience with database + query optimization
- Experience with Algorithm design
- Experience with serverless architectures and microservices
- Understanding of DevOps principles and best practices
- Experience with RESTful
- Knowledge of security best practices for web and mobile applications
- Experience with version control (git) and agile development methodologies
- Experience with automated testing frameworks
- Experience with database at scale (partitioning / sharding / perf-opt, etc)
- For the Lead Backend Engineer : Management experience.
Nice to Have
- Web development (JS, etc.)
- Kubernetes prod experience
- Go lang experience
- Team management
- ML/AI
- Performance optimization
Requirements
- Work Hard, Play Hard mentality
- Be Mature, Generous, & Work Through Conflicts
- Offer & Implement Solutions: be a problem solver!
- Have a “can do” attitude
Interview process
- HR
- Founder + CEO
- Home assignment
- Technical interview 1
- Technical interview 2
About Us
We're a profitable mobile apps startup from the United States, focused on the social space, with millions of dollars in revenue and over 10M downloads globally.
Our apps and ambitions cover dating, social audio, and language learning apps. As owners of one of the original dating apps, www.DownApp.com, we're veterans in the social space. We have a remote-friendly team that partners with our Taipei office team.
About us
Profitable US Startup with Taipei Headquarters
DOWN is a social app for honest dating and interesting conversations with over 10 million users. Users can choose whether they want to Date or Hookup (in American slang, "Get Down") with other users, so their intentions are clear. Plus, we are adding fun voice features and apps to expand in social beyond dating!
Be a part of the fast-growing, unabashedly honest startup behind the DOWN App! We have a Western/American management style, where you can learn a lot, share your ideas, and have a global impact!
Avoid corporate shackles and have a huge impact from the start!
If you would fit into a fun, quick-moving, yet chill work environment where you can be yourself, then talk to us about being on our team! At DOWN, we value honesty and people who are always trying to improve / learn new skills. We ship code quickly and operate in a fun growth culture. We dare say it's the most open and honest startup around.
Our team is lean and mean, so you'll learn from our founders frequently and have huge opportunities for impact. We are a startup where ownership matters, so you'll take the control of your area to make sure DOWN is as wonderful as our users want it to be!
🦾 The past and future of the teamFounded in 2013 by The Global Growth Expert, Colin Hodge, Down was acquired by Paktor in 2016 after reaching over 5 million users organically, merged companies with 17Live in 2017, and then reacquired by the founders in 2018.
We now treat Taipei as our headquarters, growing from a team of 2 into 15. Team members often get exposure to multiple aspects of running successful, profitable social apps, while growing their ownership skills for one main area.
We're focused on growing the team with better and better talent, especially smart and eager-to-learn people!
💡 What kind of talent fits best at Down?At DOWN, we value honesty and people who are always trying to improve / learn new skills.
Unlike many traditional Taiwan work cultures, we encourage independent thinking, curiosity, and taking risks through experimentation. You'll fit in well if you:
❶ Have a "growth mindset" and try to keep growing
Our best team members are hungry to learn, want to grow in their careers and lives, accept and give thoughtful feedback, and take on new challenges or risks.
❷ Are responsible and reliable
Our team members should be communicative, thorough, and show strong ownership of their areas, working hard to set a high standard for their professional expertise.
❸ Are curious about social dynamics and apps
We are driven by providing valuable connections to people worldwide, whether for short-term & casual dating, long-term & serious dating, new friends, language partners, or plenty of other use cases. If you're interested in how to innovate on social discovery apps, you'll be a great addition!
****VERY IMPORTANT*****
If you are interested in a job please:
- Send through English CV + Cover Letter to [email protected]
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