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Own improvements to existing services as Lever scales to increasing usage and increasingly large enterprise accounts. Identify and anticipate performance bottlenecks across all Lever services and applications. Establish best practices, bridging between platform and product engineering.
Backend engineering is part of Lever's small platform engineering team that works directly with our CTO. Backend engineers improve the overall performance, reliability, and ability to measure existing systems. They collaborate with the product engineering team, who own full stack implementation of new features.
You will be able to teach peers patterns and best practices for production systems learned in previous roles as well as those gained from a broad understanding of Lever systems. At the same time, you'll learn from the unique challenges operating a large scale realtime, eventually consistent data model. Our applications are powered by ShareDB, our distributed realtime application backend. ShareDB syncs all data via Operational Transformation, the same algorithm that powers Google Docs.
Improve user experience and engagement via performance and reliability improvements, help product engineering to continue focusing on feature innovation and product differentiation, and level up in a broad range of technical and communication skills.
ABOUT YOU
You have experience working on the web front-end; you are proficient with HTML5, CSS (or something like SASS), JavaScript, and JS frameworks. However, specific technologies don't matter nearly as much as having a breadth of experience and a great eye for product.
You have strong CS fundamentals and value rigor in engineering.
You are equally excited to build a minimum viable product quickly as you are cementing a proven feature in maintainable and tested code.
You are highly adaptable and able to deal with ambiguity.
You are intellectually curious, passionate, inventive, and eager to grow.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Design and build scalable, maintainable services
Cultivating engineering best practices within your group, and, in conjunction with other engineers, company wide
Mentor and help train more junior engineers through participating in code review and architecture review
Providing engineering input into our product planning and scheduling processes
REQUIREMENTS
2+ years industry experience working in a production code environment
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science or prior engineering experience
Superb oral & written communication skillsB
BONUS POINTS
Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks (ember, angular, react) strongly prefered.
Experience building server side APIs in Python, Ruby or Go
PERKS
Full benefits, including medical, dental, vision and life 401(k) savings plan with a company match
Catered daily lunch and dinners (and hearty breakfasts three times a week)
Unlimited snacks and drinks
Monthly in-office massages
Corporate gym membership
Free Clipper Card to pay for your commute from anywhere in the Bay Area
Flexible time off policy
Weekly happy hours and opportunity to attend one gaming event or tournament
Top of the line technology to help you build your own workspace
