Senior Backend Engineer

Some things you'll do

• Be a model and mentor for writing well-architected, well-tested, and easy-to-understand services in Go that help our customers easily send timely & relevant messages at scale.
• Apply your unique perspective to help us define and build the next generation of features and infrastructure needed to help our customers and company flourish.
• Work with our tech support teams to diagnose operational issues and help our customers achieve their goals with our product.
• Take an active role in a friendly, supportive team that encourages you and the company to grow as individuals, professionals, and teams.
• Mentor your coworkers through code review, pair programming, team collaboration, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices.

About you

• Works in North/South American time zones
• Preferably 7+ years of relevant experience.
• A track record of delivering performant and scalable distributed applications on cloud infrastructure in Golang.
• A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make great decisions in an empathetic and respectful way.
• An AI-forward mindset, excited by how AI is reshaping software development and integrating AI tools into your workflow to prototype, iterate, and ship smarter and faster
• Experience working with customers and applying a deep understanding of their needs to produce timely solutions to their real-world problems.
• A solid understanding of scalability problems and experience building out performant distributed applications on cloud infrastructure.
• Comfort working in UNIX environments and applying modern collaborative development practices.
• Experience in working with RDB systems, preferably MySQL.
• Ability to deliver high-quality solutions quickly and without mentorship.
• Experience working within a distributed company is preferred.