SD - 1

Responsibilities:

• Building and managing backend APIs and systems already at substantial scale.
• Data engineering projects to turn large, messy data strewn across multiple incoherent systems into structured data in a coherent system.
• Optimising slow-running database queries and API paths.
• Building media and streaming integrations with Zoom, Slack, Discord, and a host of other video, chat, and audio services to create an engaging learning experience - the one you wish you had when you were in school
• Building sophisticated tools and services to enable marketing, product, and other non-engineering team members to be more efficient at their work.
• Contributing small (and eventually large) components to open source software.

Requirements:

• Experience with JavaScript (Node.js ) in a production environment and comfort with working in a primarily Node.js environment.
• Our current stack is mostly on Node.js / PostgreSQL / Redis, so you'll have to be comfortable with operating there despite your previous experience.
• Either {2.5+ years of experience in working with medium- to large-scale systems in production environments} or {substantial experience with contracting that you can explain matches 5 years of work experience}.
• Experience with performance engineering experience.
• For example: profiling slow API paths with APM tools, articulating debugging strategies, designing experiments to reduce uncertainty in decision paths, and understanding complex database query plans.
• Experience with Linux/BSD production operating environments and tools like basic bash scripting; performance monitoring like htop, iotop, and perf; debugging tools; and Linux/BSD resource constraints like CPU, memory, I/O, and file handles.
• Experience with SQL databases, preferably with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with distributed version control systems, like Git.
• Have done something exceptional in your personal or professional life on your own initiative, for example: Started a school to teach how to mountain climb or race bikes. Contributions to open-source software, Started your own company, doing anything from delivering milk to developing software, Learn to play chess or go at a high level.
• Anything else you'd like to share that demonstrates how you stand out.

Nice to have:

• Some knowledge of data science and statistics.
• Familiarity with big data tools.
• Deep experience with the internals of databases.

Skills

Node, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Postgres, Redis, SQL