Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Links

Title: Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Links 
Job Purpose: We are searching for a passionate staff software engineer to help us grow and scale our network management and link systems to keep up with the needs of the growing business. This individual will be instrumental in laying the architecture and helping us iterate and build robust platforms & infrastructure for the future. Someone who enjoys tackling challenging features and interesting problems at scale along with keeping a high quality benchmark while also collaborating and working with their team. You'll be working with a team of highly motivated and fast moving professionals focused on creating innovative features, microservices, and products.

This is a fully remote position. If you are located near one of our LTK HQ, come have a coffee when you want to socialize!      

Key Responsibilities:

• Architecting and developing cloud native Golang services.
• Designing highly available/fault tolerant, transaction processing systems and operating complex services running in the cloud.
• Coming up with feasible and practical solutions to tough problems.
• Writing high quality code that is robust and easy to maintain with tests.
• Driving tasks to completion and taking ownership of projects.
• Working in an agile development environment.
• Identifying and driving improvements to our software and development processes
• Conducting peer design/code reviews.
• Working with distributed teams working in different time zones.
• Technical subject matter expert, who mentors fellow engineers, demonstrates technical experience and leads teams in solving challenging problems.
• Be an active participant in team work sessions.
• Participate in the design and development of critical link applications.
• Collaborate with Brand Platform, Consumer Platform, Influencer Platform, Business Intelligence, and other LTK teams to understand the requirements and implement them into scalable solutions.
• Evaluate new technologies for reliability, performance, scale and cost.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in the Software design/architecture process.
• Software engineering experience, back-end focused.
• Strong leadership experience.  Leading meetings, presenting, technical go to person and cross functional leader.
• Ability to evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, and ability to attract and retain key talent.
• Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group of executives, managers, engineers and subject matter experts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Inquisitive and curious, eager to learn. Passionate about unit tests, optimization and data.
• Experience with object-oriented languages including Golang and Python.
• Experience developing scalable applications and API endpoints in our platform.
• Experience integrating 3rd party API's (REST, OAuth, JSONP).
• Experience with Event Based Architecture.
• Extensive experience querying and analyzing data with SQL and NoSQL
• Experience working and deploying with AWS platform (CloudFormation, S3, EC2, Lambda, ECS, Athena, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, EventBridge)
• Experience with developing and deploying with AWS tools and systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Self driven to propose and build solutions to reduce infrastructure cost and improve scalability.

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