Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development

3 Months ago • 5 Years +

Backend Development

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development, you will design and build scalable and performant backend architecture, own and drive the technical roadmap for sizable projects or services, mentor junior engineers, and facilitate high performance agile teams collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will be responsible for leading system designs, providing technical guidance, and ensuring high-quality coding standards through code reviews. Additionally, the role involves improving system observability, incident management, DevOps, and operational SOPs. The engineer will develop and operate service-based software, propose solutions, and contribute to technology and product ideas. This role requires participating in on-call rotations.

Good To Have:

BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
Technical leadership experiences
Good at profiling and debugging tools.
High performance network service on Linux.
Design and architect large scale distributed systems.
Design and implement distributed algorithms and data structure.
Nginx / HAProxy.
Operation automation tool (such as Ansible).
Continuous integration / continuous deployment
Monitoring and alert system (Prometheus / Nagios).
Functional programming.
Data Intensive Application Design.
Web Frontend and Javascript.

Must Have:

5+ years of experience in software development
Experience mentoring junior engineers and facilitating agile processes.
Ability to build web services on Linux.
Proficient in Python/Scala/Go/Java/C++.
Good knowledge of Network API Design (e.g. REST or GraphQL).
Good understanding of any SQL/NoSQL database (MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / etc.).
Familiar with git.
Familiar with AWS, GCP or Azure.
Proactive, good interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

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About Appier

Appier is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

About the role

Software engineers at Appier build a wide range of platforms and services that interconnect data and AI with our customers and users. As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development, you will design and build scalable and performant backend architecture, own and drive the technical roadmap for sizable projects or services, mentor junior engineers, and facilitate high performance agile teams collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Key owner of sizable engineering projects and services
Lead system designs and provide technical guidance to team members.
Mentor engineers in cross-team development processes.
Lead code reviews to ensure high quality coding standards
Facilitate agile process collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Initiate and lead team-level technical, process and growth initiatives
Continuously improve the system's observability, incident management, DevOps and production operational SOPs.
Develop and operate scalable, reliable and maintainable service-based softwares and related components.
Responsible for laying the foundation for the platform as well as proposing solutions to ease software development, monitoring of software, etc.
Profiling and performance tuning of critical components
Participate in idea brainstorming and contribute ideas to technology, algorithms and products
Participate on-call rotation within Backend team to ensure product reliability and scalability

About you

[Minimum qualifications]

5+ years of experience in software development
Leadership experiences such as mentoring junior engineers, facilitating an agile process.
Ability to build web services on Linux.
Proficient in one or more of the following languages: Python/Scala/Go/Java/C++
Good knowledge of Network API Design ( e.g. REST or GraphQL).
Good understanding of any SQL/NoSQL database (MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / etc.)
Familiar with git.
Familiar with AWS, GCP or Azure.
Proactive, good interpersonal and problem-solving skills.