Senior Backend Engineer- Cassandra, Golang or Python

Job Description

Type of Employment: Full-Time
Company: Puzzle
Location: Latin America
Tech Stack: Cassandra, Golang or Python (Golang highly preferred or backend Python)

About Puzzle:

At Puzzle, we deliver innovative technology solutions to businesses across various industries. Our team of passionate professionals is committed to helping our clients achieve their business goals by leveraging the power of technology.

Our Client:

Our mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world. We are a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. With more than 50 million people visiting 100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.

About the Role:

You will work with the existing engineering team and help contribute to the direction of the projection and team. The existing team is a Product team that is building a backend for user-facing products. You will help understand, and analyze technical problems, and performance issues, and help with legacy migrations when necessary. You need to be able to understand and troubleshoot data-intensive systems.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally with product, design, and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy and build novel products and features that our users will love.
• Contribute to the full development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch. You’ll be reviewing code and design docs, giving feedback on product specs and mocks.
• Participate with a team of thoughtful, fast-moving, and motivated engineers. Contribute to standards that improve developer workflows, recommend best practices, and help mentor junior engineers on the team to grow their technical expertise.
• Continuously learn and improve your technical and non-technical abilities.

Job Requirements:

• 8+ years experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Rust, Ruby)
• 5+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs.
• Experienced with distributed caching layers, and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
• A track record of leading sized projects that require cross-team and cross-functional collaborations
• Strong organizational skills, the ability to prioritize tasks and to deliver projects on schedule.
• BS degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Join Us and Enjoy These Perks!

• Competitive Salary: Earn a USD salary that matches your skills and experience.
• Paid Time Off: We value work-life balance, offering PTO so you can recharge.
• Health Insurance Subsidy: Your health matters, and we help with a subsidy to cover your care.
• Salary Reviews every year!
• Paid Training and Certifications

So what are you waiting for? Put your puzzle-solving skills to the test and join our team today!

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