Senior Backend Engineer - Data

What you'll do:

• Build complex new solutions and solve highly complex scalability challenges at the core of our systems
• 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 our company to flourish
• Work with our tech support teams to diagnose operational issues and help our customers to achieve their goals with our product
• Take an active role in a friendly, supportive squad that encourages you and the entire 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 together

What we're looking for:

• An independent mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make significant decisions in an empathetic and respectful way
• A deep understanding of problems of scalability and working with extensive datasets. Significant experience building out performant distributed applications on cloud infrastructure, preferably in Go
• Experience working with customers and applying a deep understanding of their needs to produce timely solutions to their real-world problems.
• A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make decisions in an empathetic and respectful way
• Ability to quickly and independently dig into complex problems, identify critical factors and propose solutions with limited mentorship.
• Able to work core hours of 9 a.m. ET to noon ET to interact with the team.
• Comfort working in UNIX environments and applying modern collaborative development practices.
• Experience in working with RDB systems, preferably MySQL
• Experience working within a distributed company is preferred