Senior Software Developer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Engineer at TextNow's Backend Platform team. Responsibilities include developing and maintaining core backend services, maintaining high quality code, participating in on-call duties, fostering growth of fellow team members, organizing and communicating technical details of upcoming projects, collaborating with other teams, and more.

Requirements

• Creator of Cool Stuff with a passion for efficiency at scale, leveraging Golang or another strongly typed language along with the computing power of Cloud services
• Brilliant Collaborator who excels at connecting with team members, transforming complex ideas into clear insights, while actively listening to foster a collaborative environment
• Acts Decisively to take actions that efficiently deliver value to our customers and business stakeholders alike
• Takes Ownership of projects with the ability to drive them to completion
• Respectfully Candid with the ability to tactfully give/receive feedback with various teams across the organization
• Self-Starter who actively identifies areas of improvement and provides realistic solutions
• Resourceful and Scrappy with the ability to be strategic, roll up your sleeves, execute, and work cross-functionally
• Versatile Technologist always interested in learning something new
• Strong Experience in developing API services and shared packages using Golang
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, or others)
• Ability to apply design principles and methodologies for building scalable and high-performance backend architectures
• Production Experience using relational and nonrelational database technology (MariaDB, RDS, DynamoDB, Redis)
• Familiarity with asynchronous event processing (Kafka, SQS, or others)
• Experience delivering quality production level microservices, using gRPC or REST
• Experience utilizing CI build platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)

Responsibilities

• Develop and Maintain Core Backend Services
• Maintain a High Bar of Quality
• Participate in a Rotating On-Call
• Foster Growth of fellow team members
• Organize and Communicate the technical details of upcoming projects through our architectural review process
• Collaborate with other backend teams in guiding the development of our shared libraries

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with telecommunication (i.e. calling/messaging)
• Experience with migrating from legacy stacks (i.e. PHP, Ruby)
• Experience building applications using Kafka for event processing