Software powers the world, and we empower all teams to deliver and control the best software. As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems. Our platform serves over twenty trillion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, Redis, and NATS. As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible for supporting applications in production, including on-call. Off-hours on-call is optional and compensated in addition.
Responsibilities:
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Build and expand our feature management products and APIs, written in Go, with a focus on AI
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Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing features
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Monitor and improve server-side performance
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Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
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Actively participate in code reviews
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Write and review technical proposals
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Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Qualifications:
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Demonstrable experience with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang)
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Experience building scalable application features on top of an LLM (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock)
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Experience building RESTful APIs
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Familiarity with computer science fundamentals such as data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
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A commitment to working in a communicative and collaborative environment
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You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
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You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
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You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
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A familiarity with networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)
Compensation
Our compensation scheme is based on geography and level of experience, from $127,000 to $204,000, with RSUs, health, vision, dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary.
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