Senior Backend Engineer (Golang)

About the Company:

Founded by ex-Apple Product and Engineering leaders, Level is redefining the smart community with technology that is simple, intuitive, useful, and invisible. Together, our platform and services provide premium experiences for all those who live, work, and own multifamily communities.

At Level, we take a unique approach to designing products - one that shifts focus from what we make to how we make it and who we make it for. It’s an approach that results in elegant and unique solutions, raising the bar for the entire smart home ecosystem. 

About The Role:

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you’ll be helping us open up the capabilities of our platform by working on integrations across the smart home and property management space. These are complex problems to solve, and we’re excited about the roadmap ahead of us. 

We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution. We’ll expect you to contribute code, as well as product and feature ideas from the get-go.

Our technology stack features languages like Python and Golang, combined with technologies like AWS SNS, Lambda, and EKS to allow us to gain data integrity across the platform. We also use intuitive database solutions such as Postgres. 

 Responsibilities:

• Program; mostly in Golang
• Architect, design, and implement backend services including the core API, backend data processing, and vendor integrations
• Own the full lifecycle of development including design, prototyping, testing, release, and deployment
• Interact directly with other engineering and product teams
• Automate testing of the code you contribute
• Review pull requests on a daily basis

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Golang
• Experience with distributed systems
• Meaningful experience in a Senior Software Engineering role (i.e. a high-level of proficiency in your area, the ability to work independently and capacity to mentor more junior team members) 
• Solid experience with integrations and the ability to quickly get up to speed on on new APIs
• A deep understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals
• A preference for simple yet fully functional and extensible solutions
• Ability to quickly iterate without compromising on quality

Great to have, but not required:

• Experience with Python, FastAPI and Pydantic
• Experience with Docker, Kafka and AWS services (EKS, Lambda, IoT, etc.)
• Data storage-related experience or familiarity with PostgreSQL

Level Home Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability or genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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