Job Summary
As a backend engineer at mmhmm, you’ll work as part of a small cross-functional team of frontend and backend engineers to create the next generation of features for our product. While your day-to-day responsibilities will focus on development of backend APIs, systems and infrastructure, you’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to the product definition and the overall system architecture. The mmhmm backend runs as a serverless application on AWS. It’s written in Go, runs in Lambda, and persists data in S3, DynamoDB and RDS. We make extensive use of AWS managed services and third party infrastructure - our core philosophy is to build only what’s needed to bring our product vision to life, building on top of the well-established work of others whenever we can. You’re the right person for this job if you’re self-managing, love to work on small teams, take pride in the quality of both the code and products that you create, crave variety in your work, and are comfortable working in any part of the server-side stack.
- Minimum Qualification:Degree
- Experience Level:Senior level
- Experience Length:5 years
Job Description/Requirements
You will be responsible for:
- Design and development of backend APIs and services.
- Building both quick prototypes and robust production systems.
- Planning and coordinating with frontend engineers who will be consuming your APIs.
- Helping to set the technical direction for the service backend, including choosing new components of the tech stack, evolving the service architecture and defining client-facing APIs.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Spent at least 5 years in professional software engineering roles.
- Strong backend engineering skills, including API and database design.
- Built complex, cloud-native product backends from scratch.
- Deep experience with AWS.
- Experience programming in Go, or an eagerness and aptitude for learning new languages.
- Experience with both relational and NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB) databases and a point-of-view on how to choose between them.
- Exceptional communication skills, with an aptitude to convey clear thoughts and ideas.
- A track record of delivering on ambitious goals and a well-calibrated sense of how to balance perfect vs. done. You know how to ship.
- Worked in a startup environment. You’re comfortable with ambiguity and change.
- Experience with streaming video. This is a plus, but not required.
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