BackEnd Engineer

The role

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help build and scale Truthfools's cloud infrastructure. You'll be responsible for architecting, implementing, scaling, and maintaining our compute infrastructure and instituting best practices for our technology stack. You'll work closely with the engineering team to scope and develop new features for Truthfools's product development and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and support applications and systems under the team’s scope,
• Write clean, maintainable, performant, and well-tested code to implement new features and fix bugs.
• Write unit tests, integration tests, and work with QA to coordinate timely regression for new features.
• Monitor live system metrics, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Investigate and understand existing system technical functionality and propose technical improvements.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders to plan and prioritize new feature development.
• Communicate changes in project estimates, dependencies, and blockers with affected stakeholders quickly.
• Own feature development and projects through design, development, testing, release and production.
• Understand and improve the scalability, maintainability, availability, and visibility of applications.
• Be flexible and quick to respond to changing business priorities and requirements.
• Document newly implemented technologies and application functionality.
• Learn new technologies, practices and business concepts to solve new problems as Truthfools grows.
• Work with technologies such as MySQL, Elasticsearch, Mongodb, Redis, GraphQL, Php, Python, Javascript, VueJs, Docker, Kubernetes.

Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Expert knowledge of REST APIs.
• Experience with microservices, or service oriented architecture.
• Experience with databases (either SQL or NoSQL)
• Good unit testing and integration testing practices.
• Experience with message queue architecture.
• Good communication skills with positive attitude.

Good to have

• Experience writing code in Rust, Python, Javascript
• Working with open source technologies such as Kafka, Debezium, Elasticsearch, etc
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Video Streaming
• Knowledge of GraphQL, GRPC, React or any other Javascript frameworks
• Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM Software Development Process