- Building and managing backend APIs and systems already at substantial scale

- Data engineering projects to turn large messy data strewn across multiple incoherent systems into structured data atop a coherent system.

- Optimizing slow running database queries and API paths

- Building media and streaming integrations with Zoom, Slack, Discord, and a host of other video, chat, and audio services to create an engaging learning experience - the one you wish you had when you were in school

- Building sophisticated tools and services to enable marketing, product, and other non-engineering team members to be more efficient at their work

- Contributing small (and eventually large) components to open source software

Requirements :

- Experience with Javascript (node.js), Python, Golang, or Ruby in a production environment, and comfort with working in a primarily node.js environment

- Our current stack is mostly on node.js / PostgreSQL / Redis, so youll have to comfortable with operating there despite your previous experience

- Either 2+ years of experience in working with medium to large scale systems in production environments or substantial experience with contracting that you can explain matches 5 years of work experience

- Experience with performance engineering experience. For example :

1. Profiling slow API paths with APM tools

2. Articulating debugging strategies

3. Designing experiments to reduce uncertainty in decision paths

- Understanding complex database query plans

- Experience with Linux/BSD production operating environments and tools like basic bash scripting