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Senior Backend Engineer
Own the entire DevOps stack to support user-generated content and enhance backend architecture.
Austin
Expert
2 weeks ago
✨ About The Role
- The Senior Backend Engineer will support the backend team and take ownership of the entire DevOps stack, which currently supports 300k daily active users.
- This role will drive current and future development, adding support for user-crafted experiences and expanding the architecture to embrace user-generated content (UGC).
- The position involves feature development in Python and GO, with opportunities to work on backend features that impact millions of users.
- The role requires a strong focus on expanding infrastructure to support global growth and enhancing cloud-native tools and practices.
- The candidate will be involved in implementing ML-driven recommendations and search engines, as well as AI-powered content generation.
- The work environment is characterized by high trust, high intensity, and low bureaucracy, aligning with the startup culture of Pocket Worlds.
⚡ Requirements
- The ideal candidate has at least 8 years of experience in backend development and infrastructure management, with a minimum of 3 years in a senior or expert role.
- Extensive experience managing infrastructure at scale is essential, demonstrating a proven track record of delivering stability and performance.
- The candidate should have direct ownership experience in service orchestration, including documentation, support, deployment, observability, and CI/CD pipelining.
- Expertise in Kubernetes, particularly in an AWS environment, is crucial for success in this role.
- A passion for working in a high-velocity startup environment and supporting mission-critical applications at scale is necessary.
- Proficiency in programming with Python is required, and experience with GO, C#, or Lua is a bonus.
- The candidate should be energetic, comfortable leading teams, and eager to experiment and learn new technologies.
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