Senior Backend Engineer

NxT Level

Senior Backend Engineer

New York, NY
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Our client enables millions of gamers to capture and share their best gaming moments and create memories together. Your work will have a real impact on millions of people around the world!

    The backend team is responsible for creating REST APIs that power the application, supporting real-time in-app communications, storing billions of user-generated gaming clips, powering ML-based content feed and friend recommendations, and much more.

    ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE

    • 3+ years of experience with Java
    • 3+ years of experience as a backend engineer on a production application
    • Strong understanding of RESTful APIs and experience architecting and implementing them in a production environment at scale
    • Highly Proficient with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Should have strong understanding of schema design, indexing, relations, and performance optimizations.
    • Comfortable working on systems dealing with thousands of requests per second
    • Experience managing Cloud infrastructure
    • Designing scalable infrastructure and architectures
    • Understanding of CI/CD, TDD and version control (git)

    BONUS EXPERIENCE

    • Dependency injection
    • Experience with infrastructure management and "infrastructure as code" (Terraform, Salt, Chef, or similar)
    • Experience with caches such as Redis or Memcached
    • Experience with using queues to offload work
    • ElasticSearch, BigQuery
    • Python, NodeJS
    • Docker, Kubernetes
    • Google Cloud and/or AWS
    • Experience with CDNs such as Cloudflare, Cloudfront or Akamai
    • A passion for games and the gaming communities