Senior Backend Engineer

Description

Every day, SmartNews analyzes millions of URLs to deliver the top articles that matter in near-real time to millions of users around the world. Our backend engineers ensure that we can respond to volumes exceeding >1M requests/min—with content that is dynamically personalized for each user.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement core backend systems
• Analyze and improve stability, efficiency, and scalability of various systems

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Over 5 years of experience in backend development
• Coding experience in Java, Kotlin, or Scala
• Experience operating and maintaining a JVM-based application
• Experience developing on top of a web framework (e.g. Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
• Working knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS
• Experience developing and operating a high-traffic web service
• Good understanding of JVM internals
• Strong interest in news media and our mission to deliver high quality information to the world