Role and Responsibilities:

Build and manage the server team

• Collaborate with management, design, and other development teams to define, design, and build new functionality as required, using clean and efficient code
• Design, build and refactor our architecture as we evolve, with maintainability and efficient abstraction in mind
• Verify, test and deploy new builds

Maintain backend team

• Troubleshoot, debug and enhance the existing codebase and DevOps deployments, driving towards a continuously more performant, higher quality, and responsive experience
• Monitor and analyse system performance, and own our uptime
• Optimize our use of processing power, memory, storage, bandwidth, and third-party API calls in our backend infrastructure

What we looking for?:

• Highly experienced in designing and building commercial back end systems, with a strong analytical mind and an ethical approach
• Comfortable with the fundamentals of computer science and information architecture, including knowledge of data structures, algorithms, their complexity, their tradeoffs, and their implementation (e.g. trees, graphs, sorting algorithms, and their various Big O implications)
• A leader, experienced in managing small teams of developers through the entire software development lifecycle, in maintaining and continually improving a lean software development process, and in delivering high quality code reviews, with a toolbelt of best practices for professional software development
• Experienced with cloud infrastructure providers (Google and AWS)
• Experienced with developing on and for the Linux operating system
• Knowledgeable about systems architecture choices and performance trade-offs, database design and extensibility
• Capable of writing complex and performant SQL queries for Oracle and Postgresql
• Fluent in Golang
• Comfortable developing and maintaining systems written in Golang, Javascript and Python, using unit testing, and managing version-controlled development using continuous integration and devops tools (e.g. Travis). Working knowledge of a wide variety of languages and frameworks is preferred.