Senior Backend - SDE- II

Growth School ( https://growthschool.io )

At Growth School, you will work on:

• 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 atop a coherent system.
• Optimizing 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), Python, Golang, or Ruby 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 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
• understanding complex database query plans
• Experience with Linux/BSD production operating environments and tools like:
• basic bash scripting
• performance monitoring like htop, iotop, perf
• debugging tools
• 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
• Rescued abandoned/injured dogs/cats and found homes for them
• Started your own company, doing anything from delivering milk to developing software
• Learned to play chess or go at a high level
• Anything else youd 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, particularly PostgreSQL