Senior Backend Engineer

Our backend technology stack consists of:

- Scala + Python + Typescript

- Kubernetes + Spark

- SQL + BigQuery

We’re looking for senior backend generalist engineers capable of owning entire sub-systems. We prefer language-agnostic devs capable of both learning new technologies where needed as well as pragmatically executing on existing infrastructure. There’s a huge amount of technology powering Lustre; automated web scraping, real time pricing, knowledge graph generation, product ranking neural nets as well as core storage/serving infrastructure. 

Must have requirements

• Comfortable with common functional practices such as "functional core, imperative shell", "immutable by default", and "make illegal states unrepresentable"
• 6+ years of software development experience outside of education and internships.
• Experience with deploying projects in a Unix environment
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle)
• Effective interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills with great problem solving abilities
• Strong user data privacy values

Nice to haves

• Experience developing non-trivial programs in a functional language with Type Variables (Generics) and Algebraic Data Types, such as Scala or Haskell.
• Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Airflow) & building data-pipelines. 
• Experience with streaming frameworks (Kafka, Samza, Flink)
• Experience designing and implementing backend servers and APIs.