Backend Engineer

Post Date

Jul 02, 2024

Location

Arlington,
Virginia

ZIP/Postal Code

22209
US
Dec 17, 2024 Insight Global

Job Type

Perm

Category

Computer Engineering

Req #

DGO-716006

Pay Rate

$120k - $180k (estimate)

Job Description

On this team you will build the product platform, the backbone of our product experience that sits between our LLM (Large Language Model) and our end-user product (editor extensions, and web application).



We are seeking a candidate that is strong on the infrastructure and code level, and has enterprise product experience.

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Required Skills & Experience

*Experience building API backends that serve large number of users or that have a high volume of requests

*Experience deploying on Enterprise single-tenant environments is a plus

*Comfortable with distributed systems

*Data pipelines, distributed processing, fault tolerance, performance optimization.

*Message queues, event-driven architectures, e.g. Kafka, Google pub/sub.

*Clouds: managed services, storage. GCP, AWS, Azure.



Experience with developer experience tools

*Worked on CI/CD pipelines

*Worked with containerization in production environments



Experience with testing code

*Unit testing

*Integration testing

*Test performance optimization



Programming languages

*Experience in either Go, Ruby or Python (we're open to people from other languages)

*Big plus if you've worked with C++ or other lower level languages



Other relevant tools/experience

*DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform, baremetal.

*Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Ideal profile is someone who started in Software Engineering prior to moving into Cloud Engineering.

- Must have startup mentality, no job is too small

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.