Drimva

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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