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Job description for Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Shared Services (Remote Possible) at Glints Vietnam
- Diagnose and scope out technical debt and propose solutions that will enable the backend engineers to iterate faster on backend codebases
- Drive the definition and improvement of our internal standards for style, maintainability and best practices for scalability, performance and reliability
- Review major changes to our backend codebase, architecture and database design
- Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity in backend with minimal guidance and support from other team members
- Work closely with Squad Tech Leads to mentor engineers on backend engineering to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and autonomy
- Represent Glints in public communication around broad initiatives, specific projects and community contributions
- You’ll be part of a rapidly growing team with unique scalability challenges from both the technical and people aspects
- The product indirectly creates great social impact for millions of young professionals in SEA
- We’re the hosts for the Elastic User Group and TypeScriptSG Meetups in Singapore, so there’s ample opportunity to build networks
- You’ll work in an autonomous and aligned group of product builders in SEA & Taiwan who care deeply about our mission and their craft
- Technical strength: Able to dive into codebases in a wide variety of languages and programming paradigms and evidence in being able to understand a variety of architecture styles: RPC, SOA, microservices, domain-driven design, etc.
- Scaling software systems: Evidence in being able to scale codebases past > 40 engineers, scaling backend systems past millions of users per month, and depth in at least 1 of these areas: software architecture, distributed systems, operating systems, networking
- Thinking big, starting small: Understands that things are not necessarily perfect from day 1, but has an iterative process to improve things with a larger end-goal in mind
- Empathy: Ability to empathize with and understand organizational and people bottlenecks while balancing high standards for engineering
- Communication: Ability to communicate technically and non-technically with engineers and stakeholders alike as well as difficult concepts to other engineers and know when it’s appropriate to step in
- Software Architecture
- Functional Programming
- Distributed Systems
- Low Latency
- Platform Engineering
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- GraphQL
- Elasticsearch
- Kafka
- Cypress
- AWS
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