Role 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