Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Tumblr's Backend Engineering team as a talented engineer and contribute to building and maintaining the platform used by millions daily. You will work on features like Communities and Tumblr Premium. We offer a positive, supportive, and inclusive culture with flexible work arrangements and a global, distributed workforce. The ideal candidate possesses production experience with several programming languages (PHP proficiency is a plus), experience with large-scale systems, and strong collaboration skills. We value autonomy, open-source principles, and frequent deployments. This is a fully remote position with an open vacation policy and a competitive salary.

Requirements

• Have production experience with several programming languages. Familiarity with PHP is preferred
• Have experience working on a large-scale system
• Know about systems architecture
• Be highly collaborative and love participating in code reviews and discussions about architecture or design
• Be passionate about and experienced in software development
• Be knowledgeable about design patterns and testability; having experience with testing frameworks, performance testing, and unit testing
• Be thoughtful about product design, with good user experience instincts
• Be open and able to travel 3-4 weeks per year to meet up with your teammates in person

Responsibilities

• Build features and maintain the platform used by millions every day
• Work on large-scale systems, making them faster, more scalable, and more fault-tolerant
• Participate in code reviews and discussions about architecture or design
• Clearly communicate in both long and short form with the entire team in blog posts, pull requests, and Slack messages

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with C, C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Python, Ruby, Scala, and/or Rust
• WordPress programming experience
• Open source contributions or contributions to programs designed to help underrepresented people enter the tech field
• Experience working on accessibility
• Data analysis experience, and understanding of how analytics can help with product decisions
• Knowledge of tooling and build systems

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements, allowing team members to work when they feel best
• Open vacation policy
• Generous personal development budget
• Opportunities for leadership roles (team lead or technical lead)