DescriptionRole Summary
The Software Engineer II will:
- Build scalable backend services and distributed systems
- Design and build APIs for internal and external consumption
- Improve system reliability and performance
- Contribute to high-volume conversation processing systems
- Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and engineering teams
Requirements:Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of medium/large scale server-side software development experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Thorough knowledge of CS fundamentals:
- Data structures
- Time complexity of algorithms
- Knowledge of POSIX compliant Operating Systems (Mac OS X development and GNU/Linux deployment)
- Comfortable using CLI tools for day-to-day tasks
- Experience in writing:
- Unit tests
- Functional tests
- Regression tests
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with distributed version control tools (Git)
- Knowledge of functional programming (Clojure preferred)
- Knowledge of the JVM
- Experience working with one or more of:
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Elasticsearch
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- Experience with benchmarking systems for performance and failure detection
- Knowledge of generative testing
