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About the Role
Responsibilities
- Design and build highly reliable, scalable systems to ensure mission-critical applications maintain near 100% uptime.
- Proactively identify, debug, and eliminate performance bottlenecks and production issues.
- Drive incident prevention through root cause analysis and systemic fixes.
- Own end-to-end feature delivery from design to production.
- Establish and enforce high coding standards, review practices, and clean architecture principles.
- Practice and promote Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Collaborate with product and data teams to measure, analyze, and optimize conversion funnels.
- Contribute to long-term technical vision and architectural decisions.
- Drive cross-team collaboration to improve platform-wide engineering standards.
- Identify opportunities to implement AI-driven bots, intelligent workflows, and automation systems to improve customer productivity and internal efficiency.
- Integrate AI capabilities within Onboarding, Launchpad, and Global Search to enhance user experience and personalization.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience with significant backend/system design exposure.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
- Strong experience with asynchronous job processing and background workers.
- Solid understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, ClickHouse preferred).
- Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (Vue.js, React, or Angular).
- Ability to design and optimize interactive dashboards and data-heavy UIs.
- Excellent understanding of software design patterns, API design, and microservices.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, TDD, and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong performance tuning, profiling, and optimization skills (especially Node.js).
- Experience with caching, rate limiting, and queuing systems.
- Strong knowledge of Elasticsearch for search, indexing, and analytics.
- Experience using Redis for caching, session storage, or background queues.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally.
- Ability to make clear architectural trade-offs and guide team decision-making.
Bonus Skills
- Contributions to open-source tools, internal platforms or engineering blogs
- Exposure to AI-driven content tools or automation systems.
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