Software Developer Backend Platform
TextNow
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Canada
Posted on Jul 30, 2024
TextNow is looking for a curious and motivated Software Developer who is eager to learn, is passionate about our mission and excited to help drive the future development of the TextNow product for our customers.
TextNow's Backend Platform team uses modern technologies like AWS, Golang, gRPC, a micro-services architecture, high performing databases, streaming and queueing. We manage hundreds of millions of user interactions and terabytes of raw data in real-time. As a member of the Backend Platform Team you will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, ensuring high performance and reliability across our service landscape. You will also contribute to key projects and initiatives, helping to drive technical excellence and innovation.
What You'll Do
- Develop and Maintain Core Backend Services helping to design and implement microservices
- Maintain a High Bar of Quality in producing readable code, writing testable code, refactoring legacy systems, actively participating in cross-team architectural reviews
- Participate in a Rotating On-Call, responsible for service uptime, availability of critical functions, and performing root cause analysis of incidents to identify steps towards lasting remediation
- Organize and Communicate the technical details of upcoming projects through our architectural review process
- Collaborate with other backend developers in the delivery of our shared libraries
Who You Are
- Creator of Cool Stuff with a passion for efficiency at scale, leveraging strongly typed languages along with Cloud services
- Brilliant Collaborator who excels at connecting with team members, communicating technical solutions, and actively listening in a collaborative environment
- Acts Decisively to take actions that efficiently deliver value to our customers and business stakeholders alike
- Takes Ownership with the ability to drive tasks to completion
- Respectfully Candid with the ability to tactfully give/receive feedback with otherteammembers
- Self-Starter who actively identifies areas of improvement and provides realistic solutions
- Resourceful and Scrappy with the ability to be strategic, roll up your sleeves, and execute
- Versatile Technologist always interested in learning something new
Other
- Experience developing API services with gRPC or REST
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, or others)
- Ability to apply design principles and methodologies for building scalable and high-performance backend architectures
- Experience using relational or nonrelational database technology (MariaDB, RDS, DynamoDB, Redis)
- Familiarity with CI build platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)
Nice to Haves
- Familiarity with asynchronous event processing (Kafka, SQS, or others)
- Experience developing CI build platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Experience with telecommunication (i.e. calling/messaging)
- Experience with migrating from legacy stacks (i.e. PHP, Ruby)
- Experience building applications using Kafka for event processing
More about TextNow...
Our Values:
· Customer Obsessed (We strive to have a deep understanding of our customers)
· Do Right By Our People (We treat each other with fairness, respect, and integrity)
· Accept the Challenge (We adopt a "Yes, We Can" mindset to achieve ambitious goals)
· Act Like an Owner (We treat this company like it's our own... because it is!)
· Give a Damn! (We are deeply commited and passionate about our work and achieving results)
Benefits, Culture, & More:
· Strong work life blend
· Flexible work arrangements (wfh, remote, or access to one of our office spaces)
· Employee Stock Options
· Unlimited vacation
· Competitive pay and benefits
· Parental leave
· Benefits for both physical and mental well being (wellness credit and L&D credit)
· We travel a few times a year for various team events, company wide off-sites, and more
Diversity and Inclusion:
At TextNow, our mission is built around inclusion and offering a service for EVERYONE, in an industry that traditionally only caters to the few who have the means to afford it. We believe that diversity of thought and inclusion of others promotes a greater feeling of belonging and higher levels of engagement. We know that if we work together, we can do amazing things, and that our differences are what make our product and company great.
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