Wattpad is hiring a
Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a software developer on the Payment and Ads Platforms team at Wattpad, responsible for building and maintaining scalable payment services and consolidating ads logic. The role requires 3+ years of experience in software development, proficiency in Go and PHP, and the ability to work with complex back-end systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a prior software development role
• Skilled in Go
• Knowledge of PHP or willingness to work with it
• Enjoy building and maintaining complex back-end systems that operate 24/7 at high scale
• Write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers
• Comfortable in both static and dynamic languages and don’t mind switching between them

Preferred Qualifications

• Integration experience with 3rd party payment systems like Stripe, Square or equivalent services
• Worked with Ads Platform tools or APIs like Kevel or Google Adsense for Platform (AFP)
• Knowledge of Docker
• Used container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or ECS
• Exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform & Ansible

Benefits

$110,000 - $130,000 a year