[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Commerce is a company focused on empowering businesses through an AI-driven commerce ecosystem. They are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer - Backend to join their remote Engineering team, where the individual will work on scalable applications and services that support their data-intensive SaaS platform.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on the architecture, design, and development of scalable and highly available applications and services
- Solve complex infrastructure-related problems with code, developing and providing post-release support for scalable applications
- Identify and implement enhancements to DevOps practices and tooling, leveraging automation to enhance robustness of the CI/CD pipeline, thereby streamlining efficient application development and deployment
- Drive technology design and articulate architecture solution options to the product owners and Engineering leadership
- Conduct post-mortems to analyze and prevent repeat failures
- Be a champion for Continuous Improvement in end-to-end infrastructure and systems
- Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies and processes that solve concrete business problems
- Become a domain expert who follows industry trends and applies best practices and contributes towards continuous improvement of those practices
Skills
- 5+ years of programming experience in backend languages
- 2+ years experience with PHP (Strongly preferred), Python, GoLang, Java or a similar programming language
- 2+ years experience with MySQL or a similar technology
- Strong understanding of database schema design, caching and scalability
- Strong understanding of various communication protocols (TCP, RPC, etc)
- Strong understanding of Distributed Systems
- Experience in Caching technologies is a plus (e.g. Redis or Memcached)
- Workable understanding of Linux operating systems
- Experience with modern CI/CD and containerization tools like Docker
- Ability to perform time and memory complexity analysis
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S
- BS or higher degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- DevOps experience preferred
- Experience with Full-stack observability tools like New Relic is strongly preferred
Benefits
- Variable compensation (such as bonus or commission)
- Equity
- Benefits in accordance with local policies
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