Cape
Software Engineer, Product Platform
$175K–$225K
Hybrid: New York, NY +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Jun 16, 2023
- Location
- Hybrid: New York, NY
Hybrid: Arlington, VA - Experience
- 7+ years building and operating scalable backend systems.
About the job
Build and operate foundational backend services for Cape’s mobile carrier, re-architecting systems and owning cross-component features from discovery through operations.
What you'll do
- Re-architect and migrate services safely to support growth in features, users, and engineers.
- Own features across foundational components from problem discovery through design, deployment, and operations.
- Improve safe delivery through testing, continuous deployment, zero-downtime migrations, design and code review, collaboration, and mentoring.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building and operating scalable backend systems in one or more modern languages.
- Strong computer science foundation in algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems, demonstrated through systems built.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating services using queues and asynchronous workflows, including production experience with idempotency, retries, and schema migrations.
- Experience leading a significant end-to-end re-architecture or migration on a live system.
Pay
$175K- 225K (base salary; NYC)
Tools
Go, Postgres, Redis
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