Software Engineer 2

Summary

Join our scrappy team building a new product from scratch and make a real impact! As a backend engineer, you will leverage your skills in backend and distributed systems to solve customer problems and improve the world. You'll build streaming infrastructure for our data integration platform, capturing data from various sources and integrating customers into the new system. You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, and the ATO detection team, acting as a liaison between infrastructure and detection teams. You'll also contribute to our group's growth through excellent interview practices and attracting top talent. We're a remote and distributed team, so excellent communication skills are essential. Expect some level of uncertainty and a willingness to tackle tasks beyond a strictly defined role.

Requirements

• Streaming data systems - using Kafka, Spark, Map/Reduce or similar to process large data sets
• Experience with building and operating distributed systems and services at a high scale (~billions of transactions each day)
• Working with external party APIs
• 3-5 years of overall software engineering experience
• Strong sense of best practices in developing software

Responsibilities

• Build out streaming infrastructure for our data integration platform
• Be able to capture data from slack, teams and other streaming data platforms for processing within our Data Ingestion Platform (DIP)
• Work to integrate customers into the new streaming infrastructure, migrating from the older polling model where necessary
• Work with Product Managers, Designers & Account TakeOver (ATO) detection team on product requirements and frontend implementation
• Partner with our ATO Detection team
• Understand the workflows and processes of the ATO Detection team. Be an effective liaison between ATO Infrastructure <> ATO Detection to understand and represent ATO Detection team needs, and convert those needs into ATO Infrastructure team deliverables
• Help build our group through excellent interview practices
• This engineer must be able to accurately assess candidates technical skills, cultural fit and likelihood of success at Abnormal to ensure we hire the right team
• Be a talent magnet - someone who through the interview process demonstrates their own strengths in a way that attracts candidates to Abnormal and to the ATO team and ensures that we close the candidates we want to close

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years Python
• Working with internal as well as external APIs