About Job:

we are looking for Staff Engineer (Backend Systems)

What you’ll do:

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  Be a member of a mission-driven team building a world class product
  


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  Drive large projects to completion and be a technical leader for the team
  


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  Scope and execute high leverage technical endeavors that enable Presidential Election scale such as:
  
  
  
  
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    Designing and deploying a modern GraphQL API for internal use
    
  
  
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    Building high performance phone number metadata cache
    
  
  
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    Zero-downtime partitioning of our primary datastore
    
  
  
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    Operating and improving our streaming data pipeline (Kafka / Kafka Streams)
    
  
  
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    Improving our build system and deploy process (Bazel + Buildkite)
    
  
  
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    Completing and rolling out our public facing JSON API
    
  
  
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    Instrumenting and optimizing critical backend services built with NodeJS
    
  
  
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    Managing our data warehouse (Big Query)
    
  
  
  
  


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  Propose and push for projects that you think are important, either by proposing new ideas, or arguing for reprioritization of existing ones.
  


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  Be flexible and adaptive with your process, and able to balance multiple ambitious projects at once. Know when to cut corners, and when to sweat the details.
  

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  A proven track record of shipping high quality software and a strong desire to write code that will impact millions of people.
  


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  Passion for building highly scalable systems with NodeJS.
  


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  Experience working on large web applications built with JavaScript (leveraging type systems such as Flow and TypeScript)
  


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  Desire to work with modern web application technologies like GraphQL.
  


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  Hands on involvement operating large scale distributed systems.
  


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  A demonstrated ability to work constructively and respectfully with people from non-technical backgrounds.
  


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  Humility and open-mindedness, a combination of strong opinions, clear articulation of thinking, and a willingness to change your mind in the face of new information.
  

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  Comfort explaining tradeoffs of decisions, and eagerness to hear and understand feedback on your work. Positive and constructive deliverer of feedback to other projects.
  

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  Experience with cloud computing providers like Amazon Web Services
  


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  Experience with MongoDB, Postgres, Redis, Kafka
  


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  Experience with Bazel, Ansible, Terraform (Infrastructure)
  


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  Experience with React and React Native (Modern Mobile + Web Applications)
  


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  Experience working with remote teams
  


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  Experience working with and open source projects and software