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Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Lead backend development, own feature releases, and guide a team using AWS, Rust/WebRTC, and DevOps tools like Docker and Nomad.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the engineering team to release features on the product roadmap.
  • Be able to take full ownership of your feature releases, testing and reliability.
  • Gain a holistic understanding of the company stack, infrastructure, internal development requirements, resources as well as customer facing features.
  • You will be leading a team in this role and you are capable, experienced, willing and excited to step into a leadership and executive role, in the near future.

Requirements

  • A University degree is not needed, but would be ideal.
  • 5+ years of experience in the industry
  • Experience with leading a team of engineers e.g. team lead.
  • Experience with AWS (or GCP / Azure)
  • Ideally, experienced with Rust or WebRTC.
  • Ideally a devops knowledge - Nomad (or Kubernetes) and Docker, as well as knowledge of standard Linux networking and shell scripting.

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