Who is Recruiting from Scratch :

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire.

Our client is hiring for a Staff Backend Engineer to join their team.

This is a hybrid role based in their Chicago or Bay Area Offices (San Francisco or Palo Alto) and will require you to be in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

What’s so interesting about this role?

Their team is growing because our user base is growing (30% in the last year!) which means we need you! We’re looking for an experienced Backend Engineer who is passionate about building, testing, deploying, and working closely with the Product team to deliver new features. You will have the opportunity to solve challenging problems, work with the latest systems, collaborate with a kind and capable team, and contribute meaningfully.

What’s the job?

Leading projects and other engineers to implement new features and coordinate closely with the product and design teams
Own the design and development of backend services in a stable and scalable microservices architecture
Work with Product Managers, Designers, and other Engineers to refine feature design and functionality
Optimize key pieces of platform using tools like Redis, Postgres, and Kafka on AWS services
Innovate by guiding data-driven decisions to adopt new technologies, architectures, and workflow
Maintain high availability of the platform by leveraging distributed systems and infrastructure engineering, while playing a key role in optimizations, cost reduction, and incident management.
Help guide and mentor team members through pairing sessions, code reviews, and architecture reviews.

What We'll Love About You

7+ years of experience as a Software Engineer developing critical portions of working on Backend Systems (Service APIs, Data Processing, Messaging Services)
Experience designing and implementing large-scale API systems for high load and data consistency in a microservice-based architecture
Experience designing systems that make heavy and efficient use of Cloud Service, AWS preferred.
Passionate about testing software and systems
Deep understanding of concurrency concepts and trade-offs
You love figuring things out and understanding how they work end-to-end
Experience with the JVM and at least one JVM language such as Java, Kotlin, and Scala. Experience designing and productionizing large-scale distributed systems

We’ll really swoon if you have

Experience developing Production systems using Kotlin and Kafka
Experience in mentoring / skilling up less experienced developers

The salary range is $180,000 - $250,000