Hybrid Staff Backend Engineer

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Staff Backend Engineer focusing on Inworld's AI platform development. Collaborating with teams to deliver high-quality, scalable backend services while navigating rapid AI evolution.

Responsibilities

  • Establish significant scope: Collaborate with the PMs, engineers and leads to determine the biggest product needs to focus on now.
  • Operate with technical autonomy: You have considerable leeway to suggest how to address a given focus area, including bringing in new technical dependencies or standards where it’s the best choice.
  • Collaborate, execute, deliver: This is the core of the building loop. We aim to optimize for both speed and quality, despite it being decidedly non-obvious how to manage that tradeoff exceptionally well.
  • Reflect and drive improvements: Especially as a Staff Engineer, advocate for and realize system improvements, both related to and independent of key features.

Requirements

  • Excellent programming skills and experience in a statically typed backend programming language, preferably Go, Kotlin, Java or Rust
  • Experience developing and deploying cloud-based services to at least hundreds of qps (preferably more)
  • Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or MySQL)
  • Hands-on experience with caching (Redis or Memcached), pubsub/queues, data pipelines (Flink, Beam), and Cloud storage
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, can collaborate and coordinate with other roles and engineer with ease, trusted and well-regarded teammate

Benefits

  • equity and benefits

Job title

Staff Backend Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$150,000 - CA$240,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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