Sr. Backend Software Engineer

• What you’ll be doing
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• Work closely with product managers, designers, and the rest of the engineering team to design, spec, and build elegant and scalable solutions across multiple platforms
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• Design and create new API's in the Elixir Phoenix framework to be used in our core products
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• Writing optimized PostgresQL and Cassandra queries and creating high performance indices
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• Working with in-memory data stores, such as Redis, to improve scalability and responsiveness
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• Debug issues across the entire stack using logging and monitoring tools
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• Review code by your peers, offering help and insight from your experience
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• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
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• Ensure coherence of all aspects of projects as an integrated system and uphold overall technical quality
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• Strategize and develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
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• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards
• We’ll be excited if you have
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• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus
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• 4+ years of experience with Elixir designing and building high-performance RESTful web services serving billions of requests per day
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• High-level experience with SQL infrastructure and data modeling
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• Comfortable with change: ability to demonstrate comfort with ambiguity, adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic setting
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• Data-driven but also imaginative and intuitive in coming up with ideas and solutions
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• Must possess a start-up mindset: hunger to learn quickly and the ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced team environment
• A BIG PLUS if you have
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Experience with GoLang or Python

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• Expertise with video streaming libraries such as FFmpeg or GStreamer
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• Experience working with video/audio codecs
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• Experience working with live streaming encoders and WebRTC
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• Experience working with AI/ML models and applications
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• Experience in building large-scale applications with Python
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• Experience writing GraphQL queries and mutations