Senior Backend Engineer

NxT Level
New York, NY, US
Full-time

Job Description

Job Description

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
  • 30+ days ago
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