About the role:

As a Software Engineer - 2 on the Backend Team, you'll contribute to building the core product experiences and infrastructure powering our flagship data aggregator platform, which directly impacts millions of creators each day. This is a unique opportunity for an engineer and strong collaborator who can work with talented people in product, design, and engineering to help build our next-generation creator’s products. It's a very high impact role where you will interface with all major product & platform teams at Phyllo, building out the core platform experiences. Part of the core team and responsible for end to end development.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Write code and tests, build prototypes, resolve issues, and analyze bottlenecks

• Design robust APIs to support any clients

• Manage and optimize scalable distributed systems in the cloud

• Optimize API for performance and scalability

• Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met, and allow for regression testing

• Produce quality code, raising the bar for team performance and speed

• Recommend systems solutions by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of custom development and purchased alternative

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

• 2-6 years of experience in backend development.

• Excited to design and build backward compatible REST or GraphQL APIs.

• Experience with any of two programming languages - Python, Go, or Java (bonus points for more than two).

• Detailed problem-solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and complexity analysis.

• Having the ability to write clean, effective code is a must and drill deep on technical implementation.

• Self-driven to identify opportunities to make things better and efficient.

• Ability to work in high growth and rapidly scaling startup.

Preferred:

• Passion for designing and deploying high performance, highly scalable distributed systems with extensive monitoring and logging practices.

• Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives on engineering standard methodologies like coding, testing or monitoring.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write detailed technical documents.

• Cross-collaborating with multiple teams to drive impact.

• Understanding of distributed storage and database systems (SQL or NoSQL).

• Ability to decompose complex problems into clean, extensible, performant services and systems.