Principal Backend Engineer
Benefits:
Healthcare benefits covered at 100% for employees
Generous parental leave policy
Mental health support through Talkspace
Financial wellness support through Northstar
Stipends for co-working, professional development, and wifi
Experience Requirements:
10+ years of experience as a software engineer building large-scale distributed backend systems
Proficiency in Go
Experience designing systems leveraging AWS, Kafka, GraphQL, Kubernetes, and Datadog
Experience operating at Medium’s product/user scale
Experience modernizing legacy code bases
Other Requirements:
Must be based in the US
Able to attend company-wide offsites twice a year
Proven track record of mentoring and teaching
Product minded and able to lead from ideation to MVP
Strong backend engineering fundamentals
Responsibilities:
Own the architecture for large-scale, complex product projects
Own the implementation of critical features and systems
Work with engineering, design, and product leadership to evolve features
Lead efforts to improve engineering standards, tools, frameworks, and processes
Mentor and develop other engineers on the team
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