Senior Software Engineer, Backend

10 Months ago • 5-10 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Inkitt is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build, maintain, and scale their platform powering a rapidly growing global audience. Must have experience with Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, React, Docker, and Sidekiq. Experience with CI pipelines, Kubernetes, AWS/GCP, Kafka/RabbitMQ, and SQL/NoSQL is a plus.
Must have:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • JavaScript, React
  • Docker, Sidekiq
  • SQL, NoSQL
Good to have:
  • CI Pipelines
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS/GCP
  • Kafka/RabbitMQ
Perks:
  • High Velocity
  • Global Audience

Job Details

Inkitt is building the Disney of the 21st Century, standing at the forefront of technology and entertainment. Leveraging AI and predictive algorithms, Inkitt discovers unknown stories and turns them into blockbuster hits, producing a new $1M ebook every 4 weeks and selling directly to consumers through its Galatea app. Inkitt has become the 11th most bestseller-generating publisher in the world, boasting a 40x higher hit-rate than traditional publishers. Recently raising a Series C and backed by some of the top VC’s such as: Khosla, Kleiner Perkins, and NEA Ventures, our recent expansion into GalateaTV is only the beginning of our journey to becoming the next-gen entertainment powerhouse.

What You’ll Do:

    • Architect, build, iterate, and manage backend services that powers global Inkitt Platform
    • Develop API contracts, create documentation, and support application team in developing against those APIs
    • Build the frontend of applications through appealing visual design
    • Build and ship new features at high velocity and high quality
    • Work closely with Product Managers and Designers to achieve product goals
    • Contribute your ideas to the product's roadmap
    • Drive the architecture and technology choices that enable a world-class user experience
    • Continuously explore new technologies that will elevate the user experience of customers in order to be at the forefront of a rapidly changing digital environment

What You'll Bring:

    • 5+ years of professional software development experience within various back-end infrastructures
    • Expertise in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and React
    • Experience with using Docker and Sidekiq, while any experience with building CI pipelines, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Kafka, or RabbitMQ is a plus
    • Strong working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, caches, and CDNs
    • Excellent communication skills for collaborating with other teams, while experience mentoring juniors is a plus
    • A drive to raise the bar of the team on Code Quality, User Empathy, and Delivery Speed
At Inkitt, we strive to build a company culture and provide employment opportunities based on diversity and inclusion. We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed, as should our team members. As a growing team from 20+ countries, we welcome everyone to apply. 

We look forward to hearing from you!

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About The Company

We believe every author should have an equal opportunity to succeed. Therefore, our mission is to discover hidden talents and turn them into globally successful authors.


Inkitt is a pioneer at the forefront of Data Driven Publishing. Using an analytic and objective approach, we’ve discovered hundreds of talented authors around the world with over 50% of our published authors achieving $100,000+ in sales. We have forever changed the traditional publishing model by inventing an algorithm which analyzes users' reading behavior to identify hits, in turn removing subjectivity from the equation. This gives Inkitt the unique ability to discover hidden talents that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.


Hits that are identified by our algorithm, are then licensed to and distributed on our Galatea app where we systematically generate blockbusters by A/B testing the content of our stories. This process is our own unique creation, and something which has never before been done in the entertainment industry. 


At present, we are an international team of 85 passionate and dedicated inventors and entrepreneurs and we are growing quickly. We are proud that our mission has persuaded early investors in Google and Spotify to back us, as well as attracted talents from Netflix, Activision Blizzard, DeliveryHero, Babbel, and N26 to join us.


We invent new solutions to problems we encounter, as opposed to simply iterating upon existing solutions. 


Join us to build the Disney of the 21st Century!


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