Backend Engineer

We’re building a gamified developer platform empowering tens of thousands of coders to compete in exciting software engineering challenges – all while pushing the frontier of LLMs!

As a Backend Engineer, you'll become part of a passionate, fast moving team dedicated to solving challenging technical problems, designing engaging gamification experiences, and shaping the foundations to support the collective effort of developers worldwide.

What You’ll Do

• Lead technical discussions, guide architectural decisions, and identify opportunities for improvement across backend systems

• Architect robust infrastructure to efficiently handle high volumes of user interactions, data processing, and real-time competition data

• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers and product managers to deliver seamless user experiences

• Optimize backend performance, reliability, and scalability to support rapid growth and evolving product requirements

• Establish backend engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and documentation

What You Have

• 3+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems and APIs

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures

• Experience designing APIs and backend services using Go

• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services on AWS

• Proficiency with IaaC tools (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines

• Expertise designing relational database schemas, optimizing SQL queries, and managing database performance and integrity

• Excellent collaboration and proactive communication skills

Nice to Haves

• Experience with Kubernetes and orchestration of containerized applications

• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)

• Experience designing and scaling data pipelines to handle large volumes of data efficiently

• Worked with secure code execution environments and sandboxing techniques

• Interest or experience in gamification or developer-focused platforms