Software Engineer Intern - Backend

3 Weeks ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

As an intern, you will work directly with the founding team on the backend system, which is crucial for our success. You'll receive technical mentorship from the CEO and become a valuable member of the engineering team. Throughout your internship, you'll shape the product and make a mark in an exciting industry. Responsibilities include building reliable backend services, improving scalability and maintainability, experimenting with architectural changes, taking ownership of projects from design to deployment, and contributing to the product and its usability.
Must have:
  • Show experience as a backend intern.
  • Good knowledge of server architecture and scalability designs.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
  • A sense of urgency and ownership over the product.
  • Great attitude towards work and people.
  • Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive.
  • Focus on quality and simplicity.
  • Motivated to solve problems in unique and innovative ways.
  • Desire to make things, and understanding of developer usability.
Good to have:
  • Experience with Erlang/OTP and/or Golang is a big plus.

Job Details

We are a young startup on a mission to bring kickass cloud services to mobile game developers around the world. Some call us the indie-friendly backend for mobile multiplayer games. We are always looking for open-minded people who'd like to join our crazy journey. If none of the job postings suite you, feel free to get in touch anyway.

As an intern you'll be working directly with the founding team on our product's backend system which is the main driver for our success. You’ll receive technical mentorship by our CEO and become an equal member of the engineering team. Throughout your internship you'll have the opportunity to shape our product and leave a mark in an exciting industry.

 

Responsibilities

  • Build stand-alone, reliable backend services
  • Improve backend scalability and maintainability
  • Experiment and iterate on architectural changes through component and performance testing
  • Take ownership of projects from design to implementation and deployment (and beyond)
  • Contribute directly to our product and the way our early customers use it

 

Requirements

  • Show us what you did before and why you are the backend intern!
  • Very good knowledge of server architecture and scalability designs
  • Experience with Erlang/OTP and/or Golang is a big plus
  • Ability to work both independently and in collaboration with the founding team
  • A sense of urgency and ownership over the product
  • Great attitude towards work and people
  • Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive
  • Focus on quality and simplicity
  • Motivated to solve problems in unique and innovative ways
  • Desire to make things, and an understanding of developer usability and long-term maintainability

 

Technologies we use

If any of the following technologies makes you want to create awesome things, you should talk to us.

  • Erlang/OTP
  • Golang
  • Lua / LuaJIT
  • C / C++ / C#
  • Nginx
  • Cowboy
  • Nixos
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cassandra
  • Redis
  • AWS
  • Linode
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Catch
  • Apache Mesos
  • Marathon

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We are a young startup on a mission to bring kickass cloud services to mobile game developers around the world. Some call us the indie-friendly backend for mobile multiplayer games. We are always looking for open-minded people who'd like to join our crazy journey.

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