Software Engineer, Backend & Data Platform

Description

We’re looking for a talented and experienced backend engineer who can help us build the systems and data pipelines that empower the science and technology behind Aimlabs, the leading aim training platform with over 45 million users. 

In addition to writing high-quality code, this engineer is expected to contribute innovative ideas and prototype code to help achieve product goals, and to lend a helping hand in keeping our data platform running smoothly. 

Smart, motivated, and calm under pressure; you’ll be working with a team of like minded engineers to build a scalable and reliable platform that many partners and millions of users rely on every day. While you’ll be spending most of your time working on our backend APIs & systems, you should be comfortable spending a fifth of your time in the data stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Write beautiful, performant and well-tested code, quickly and efficiently

• Build and iterate on backend systems that are scalable, maintainable, and reliable, using modern technologies and serving millions of users a month

• Hit the ground running to quickly start iterating on pre-existing systems and have an immediate impact on the business

• Contribute to BI ETL pipelines on an ad-hoc basis as priorities demand, by maintaining & writing Snowflake SQL/PySpark jobs

• Collaborate with other engineers, project managers, BI analysts, and stakeholders on a daily basis
  

Ideal Skills

• 4+ years of experience with Node.js backend engineering at scale

• 2+ years of experience writing modern, production-grade TypeScript code

• In-depth knowledge of GraphQL

• Prior at-scale experience designing and implementing event driven systems

• Prior experience implementing Kafka in production environments

• Ability to write SQL, Python & perform basic data engineering tasks

• Ability to step out of comfort zone and learn new technologies

• Ability to uplift and coach the rest of your team

• Excellent communication and self-management skills
  

Bonus Skills

• Experience provisioning AWS resources using Pulumi

• Experience deploying Kubernetes infrastructure

• Experience working with OIDC provider frameworks

• Experience building ETL pipelines in Snowflake and/or Ascend

• Familiarity with utilizing test frameworks such as Jest
  

Who we Are & What we Offer:

We hire talented and self-motivated people and get out of their way. We are based in Ohio, but have a remote work culture and are looking for exceptional people to join our team regardless of their physical location. We value performance, not hours worked. We believe you shouldn’t have to miss your kid’s play or doctor’s appointment for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule. However, if you are looking for a job where you are happy to just collect a nice paycheck and/or nap under your desk like George Costanza, we are not the right fit for you (we don’t even have desks).

The work we do is hard, and therefore, a key company goal is to mitigate needless obstacles that prevent our team members from accomplishing their goals. To that end, we provide unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) under the guiding principle that each team member can embrace the concept of "Freedom with Responsibility."

We believe in hiring the best, the brightest, and cultivating a culture of collaboration and appreciation. You will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, citizen status, age, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected status.