Remote Senior Backend Engineer
Company: Insight Global
Location: Houston
Posted on: June 25, 2022
Job Description:
Location: Remote - CA, DC, VA, MD, NY, NH, FL, NC, MA, GA, or
CTWhat We're Building + Who We Work With:Our Client enables
organizations to run large-scale text messaging campaigns by
empowering their team members and volunteers to efficiently have
thousands of personal 1-to-1 conversations.Conversations driven by
our platform are geared towards driving measurable meaningful
outcomes such as voter turnout, event attendance, or dollars raised
for clients such as Planned Parenthood, Sierra Club, the DNC, large
non-profits, unions, and universities, as well as several 2020
presidential candidates.To do that our team works on building
systems that scale up 100x in a matter of hours and which are able
to send 100 million messages a day. Our clients bursty appetite for
us requires that we are able to scale up and down two orders of
magnitude quickly and efficiently at the drop of a dime so that
they can reach voters, volunteers, benefactors, or attendees at the
right time, with the right message, sent by the right person!Sound
interesting? Keep reading!What you'll do
- Execute technical projects that improve our platform such
as:
- Development of highly scalable integrations with a complex
domain model and sophisticated event pipeline
- Development of an entirely new broadcast messaging product that
can scale to deliver over 25 million messages a day.
- Augmentation of our core product with video messaging
capabilities.
- Sharing responsibility for core components of several
distributed systems in a data intensive application.
- Building out our public facing JSON API and web hook
platform.You'll learn how to
- Build high performance asynchronous http servers built with
NodeJS
- Work with data stores with billions of records and terabytes of
data that scale way beyond the capabilities of a single
machine
- Operate a high performance and fault tolerant AMQP deployment
via RabbitMQ
- Work with column oriented data warehouse and streaming data
platforms such as Kafka
- Deploy to CDNs and stateless containers on major cloud
providers
- Write high quality TypeScript and leverage other tooling /
frameworks used to manage large JavaScript code bases
- Propose and push for projects that you think are important,
either by suggesting new ideas, or arguing for reprioritization of
existing ones.We'll expect you to
- Be flexible and adaptive with your process, and able to balance
multiple ambitious projects at once. Know when to cut corners, and
when to sweat the details.
- Be a member of a mission-driven team building a market leading
productWe are looking for someone with
- Strong desire to write code that will impact millions of
people.
- Strong experience building systems with NodeJS, Java or any
other backend OOP and TypeScript.
- Some experience working with languages based on the JVM (Kotlin
/ Scala / Java).
- A demonstrated ability to work constructively and respectfully
with people from non-technical backgrounds.
- Humility and open-mindedness, a combination of strong opinions,
clear articulation of thinking, and a willingness to change your
mind in the face of new information.
- Comfort explaining tradeoffs of decisions, and eagerness to
hear and understand feedback on your work.We hope you have
- Experience working with remote teams
- Experience working with and open-source projects and
software
- Six or more years of experience as software engineer
Keywords: Insight Global, Houston , Remote Senior Backend Engineer, Engineering , Houston, Texas
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