Backend Engineer

Title: Software Engineer - Backend
Location: Remote USA only
Duration: 12-month contract with high possibility of an extension
Pay Range: $60-68/hr. W2

Job Description:

• We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to work on technical efforts across almost everything you see and touch on Client as a user - Feeds, Posting, Commenting, Media, Profiles, Client for Businesses and Publishers! This role requires expertise in building backend systems at scale. You ll build services, work alongside ML models, drive architecture decisions and primarily write production quality code while collaborating with engineers, MLEs, PMs across multiple teams.

In your day-to-day, you can expect to:

• Work on key technical and design decisions across all areas mentioned above.
  Work within a team to abstract monolithic systems into clean, isolated services to decouple product and infrastructure layers.
• Develop data-pipelines for feature population for ML models, and at times help productionalize them.
• Maintain high standards of quality

What Sets You Apart:

• You ve worked with a social platform or consumer-focused company, writing code for backend systems at scale.
• You bring an understanding of the intersection of Backend with AI/ML on user-facing products.
• You are equally comfortable diving into codebases as you are making high-level architectural decisions.

Who You Might Be:

• 7+ years of industry experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• 7+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (Go, Python, Ruby, Java, C++)
• Experienced with GraphQL, REST, HTTP, Thrift basics, and the ability to design and implement maintainable APIs
• Experienced with distributed caching layers and distributed large scale data storage systems like Cassandra.
• A track record of developing and improving highly scalable and reliable serving systems
• Entrepreneurial spirit. You are self-directed, innovative, and biased towards action in fast-paced environments. You love to build new things and thrive in ambiguity and even failure

Benefits Info

Pride Global offers eligible employee s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.