Staff Backend Engineer
Inworld AI
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Mountain View • California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $180,000 - $280,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
CloudGoJavaKotlinMySQLPostgresRedisRust
About the role
- Establish significant scope: Collaborate with the PMs, engineers and leads to determine the biggest product needs to focus on now.
- Operate with technical autonomy: You have considerable leeway to suggest how to address a given focus area, including bringing in new technical dependencies or standards where it’s the best choice.
- Collaborate, execute, deliver: This is the core of the building loop. We aim to optimize for both speed and quality, despite it being decidedly non-obvious how to manage that tradeoff exceptionally well.
- Reflect and drive improvements: Especially as a Staff Engineer, advocate for and realize system improvements, both related to and independent of key features.
Requirements
- Excellent programming skills and experience in a statically typed backend programming language, preferably Go, Kotlin, Java or Rust
- Experience developing and deploying cloud-based services to at least hundreds of qps (preferably more)
- Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
- Hands-on experience with caching (Redis or Memcached), pubsub/queues, data pipelines (Flink, Beam), and Cloud storage
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, can collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineer with ease, trusted and well-regarded teammate
Benefits
- Equity
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Hard skills
GoKotlinJavaRustcloud-based servicesrelational databasesPostgreSQLMySQLcachingdata pipelines
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationcoordinationadvocacyteamwork