Hybrid Staff Backend Software Engineer

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About the role

  • Staff Backend Software Engineer developing scalable APIs and services using Elixir at a tech company. Collaborating with teams to enhance product offerings and maintain high technical standards.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with product managers, designers, and engineering teams to translate product vision into robust technical solutions
  • Design and build scalable APIs using the Elixir Phoenix framework that power our core products and services
  • Architect efficient data models and write optimized PostgresQL and Cassandra queries, creating high performance indexes to support large-scale data workloads
  • Working with in-memory data stores, such as Redis, to improve scalability and responsiveness
  • Lead complex debugging and incident resolution across the entire stack using logging and monitoring tools
  • Guide and mentor engineers through thoughtful code reviews, sharing expertise and helping elevate the team’s technical capabilities
  • Drive improvements to engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  • Ensure coherence of all aspects of projects as an integrated system and uphold overall technical quality
  • Contribute to technical strategy by identifying opportunities for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
  • Help define and evolve development practices, including technology choices, architectural patterns, workflows and coding standards to support a high-performing engineering organization

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus
  • 6+ 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

Job title

Staff Backend Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridHong Kong

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