Hybrid Senior Backend Software Engineer

at Firework

• Job title: Senior Backend Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cassandra, Elixir, FFmpeg, GraphQL, Postgres, Python, Redis, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hong Kong

About the role

• Sr. Backend Software Engineer designing and building Elixir-based RESTful services for a technology company. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance solutions across platforms.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and the rest of the engineering team to design, spec, and build elegant and scalable solutions across multiple platforms
• Design and create new API's in the Elixir Phoenix framework to be used in our core products
• Writing optimized PostgresQL and Cassandra queries and creating high performance indices
• Working with in-memory data stores, such as Redis, to improve scalability and responsiveness
• Debug issues across the entire stack using logging and monitoring tools
• Review code by your peers, offering help and insight from your experience
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Ensure coherence of all aspects of projects as an integrated system and uphold overall technical quality
• Strategize and develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus
• 4+ years of experience with Elixir designing and building high-performance RESTful web services serving billions of requests per day
• High-level experience with SQL infrastructure and data modeling
• Comfortable with change: ability to demonstrate comfort with ambiguity, adapt quickly and be effective in new situations in a highly dynamic setting
• Data-driven but also imaginative and intuitive in coming up with ideas and solutions
• Must possess a start-up mindset: hunger to learn quickly and the ability to balance multiple priorities in a fast-paced team environment
• Experience with GoLang or Python
• Expertise with video streaming libraries such as FFmpeg or GStreamer
• Experience working with video/audio codecs
• Experience working with live streaming encoders and WebRTC
• Experience working with AI/ML models and applications
• Experience in building large-scale applications with Python
• Experience writing GraphQL queries and mutations