As a Senior Back End Developer, you will design and implement high-performance backend systems, develop APIs, and support product features, ensuring quality through testing and automation.
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About this role:
Fulfill your potential with us!
Sensor Tower has a successful startup environment, so engineers can take advantage of working on a variety of projects, owning major features that impact customers, building new things, and productionizing the experimental code that has proven value.
We need engineers who have the creativity and skills to gather meaningful data and insights. In our lean and flat organization, you will also have a meaningful say in what and how we build out all aspects of our product.
What your focus will be:
- Participate in the full development life cycle, including design, implementation, quality testing, and release.
- Leverage your strengths and interests to work on full feature implementation from high-scale concurrent processes, to security and network traffic, to system development and services APIs.
- Develop and optimize high-performance backend systems at scale.
- Gather test data, implement unit tests, develop integration tests, apply testing frameworks, and evaluate end-to-end outcomes.
- Minimize errors and repetitive human effort with automation.
- Work in close cooperation with the Product team to deliver innovative solutions, optimize the existing systems, and add new features.
- Join a growing global engineering team and use your technical skills to drive value and impact business decisions
Our tech stack:
- We have a principle-based approach to our tech stack. We choose tools and platforms that help engineers develop and test code quickly, and that we can support across the organization over the life of the product. Time to market is critical for our customers in this digital economy.
- Python: Effective choice for engineers and data scientists to implement models quickly.
Experience we are looking for:
- 5+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer.
- Strong foundation in programming and software application design.
- Solid understanding of RESTful systems and the principles of good API design.
- Solid knowledge with Python. Knowledge of Ruby is a plus.
- Interest in working in Sensor Tower Tech Stack.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- System software development.
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
- AWS Services
- MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Clickhouse
- Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD.
Preferred skills
Nice to have experience
About Sensor Tower
Sensor Tower cultivates responsibly sourced market intelligence that provides visibility into the trends shaping the global digital economy. Our customers use these insights to help them make better business decisions.
Why Sensor Tower?
Our flexible work environment allows employees to live in greater connection with the people, places, and activities they love!
Our benefits for full-time positions include:
- Flexible time off so employees can shape their time away from work.
- Health and wellness stipend to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle through physical and mental fitness.
- Monthly internet stipend and a one-time $500 home office stipend.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, and veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. If you have a disability or special need, please do not hesitate to let us know and we'll do our best to accommodate.
Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
Clickhouse
Docker
Elasticsearch
Kubernetes
MongoDB
Python
Redis
Ruby
Sensor Tower Culver City, California, USA Office
3840 Watseka, Culver City, CA, United States, 90232
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