Senior Back-End Systems Engineer

A US-based company that has built a customer data platform for customer brands with a number of channels is looking for a Senior Back-End Systems Engineer. The selected candidate will be responsible for working with a group of other engineers and designers to modify the company's data pipeline. The company manages more than 250 billion API calls on a monthly basis and up to $5 bn in transactions with close to $300 mn in funding. This position requires an overlap of 6 hours with the US time zone. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Formulate and maintain radical new data processing features that are fast, dependable, and cost-effective
• Scan and process petabytes of data efficiently to power analytics
• Work with data processing concepts that are highly scalable, such as message queuing, multi-threaded code, and sharding, among others
• Analyze complex systems for areas for improvement
• Use continuous research, self-improvement, and internal presentation to drive the engineering culture
• Lead technical projects utilizing Agile methodologies
• Engineers should be mentored in healthy best practices
• Identify, plan, and carry out critical infrastructure initiatives
• Cloud costs, performance, and reliability should be monitored, diagnosed, and optimized

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or equivalent experience)
• At least 7+ years of relevant experience as a software engineer
• Experience working in a SaaS or PaaS environment using .Net technologies
• 3+ years of professional AWS / Distributed system experience
• Knowledge of Containerization (Docker) and SQL / RDBMS
• Familiarity with NoSQL such as Cassandra, Scylla, Aerospike, and DynamoDb
• Knowledge of Messaging (Kafka, Pulsar, SQS)
• Experience with S3, Lambda, ECS, Kubernetes (K8s), and ElasticSearch/ELK stack
• Familiarity with AWS Networking Concepts/Costs
• Knowledge of Mastery of C# (modern Dotnet core preferred)
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies
• Understanding of web services development principles and high-volume applications 
• Demonstrated technical / project leadership using Agile/Scrum
• Proficiency in English