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    Senior Backend Engineer - San Francisco, United States - Cantina Consulting

    Cantina Consulting
    Cantina Consulting San Francisco, United States

    1 week ago

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    A bit about the role:


    Seeking a talented Senior Backend Engineer to assist a Sean Parker startup that is building the first social AI platform, based in Sunnyvale, CA.

    As a Senior Backend Engineer at Cantina, Inc. you will work on backend systems to support Cantina's social AI platform.

    You will assist in the building and scaling of microservices that handle real-time messaging and dispatch push notifications to mobile clients.

    If you are passionate about designing and building a highly-scalable, maintainable, and secure backend system leveraging Generative AI to enhance communications for a social media app, keep reading

    A bit about the work:
    Design highly-scalable, maintainable, and secure backend systems to accommodate high traffic while ensuring system reliability, responsiveness, and optimal performance
    Plan and build real-time chat and presence systems
    Write extensive tests to ensure that the features provided are reliable
    Write thorough documentation to assist client teams in navigating new features
    Utilize load tests and monitoring to ensure systems function at peak performance under load conditions
    Work with cross-functional team members to design, code, and test backend systems


    A bit about you:
    Education - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or foreign equivalent)
    Scalable Systems - 3+ years professional software engineering experience building and/or operating large scalable systems

    Microservices/Load Balancing - Experience building and maintaining microservices that dispatch push notifications to mobile clients, handle messaging, analytics, and other core business features.

    Hands on experience with cloud microservices architecture (e.g. AWS-EC2, AWS-Lambda or Google Cloud) for load balancing
    SQl/NoSQL Databases - Thorough understanding of NoSQL (Mongo preferred) and SQL databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
    Sharding / partitioning of databases
    Identifying and optimizing slow running queries
    Technology proficiency - Demonstrated proficiency with at least two of the following: (JavaScript / Typescript), Go, Rust, Kubernetes or Docker
    Test Writing & Testing - Hands-on experience writing extensive tests to ensure that the features provided are reliable. Runs tools, debugs, trains data by utilizing load tests and monitoring system to ensure peak performance under load conditions
    Documentation - Writes thorough documentation to ensure client teams know how to use features
    Continuous Integration - Experience using continuous integration with CircleCI or equivalent
    Communication - Strong communicator
    Startup - Experience working in a startup environment and is energized by the agency and impact startups have to offer
    Initiative - Self-starter who loves to churn out quality code quickly and can build out complex systems fast

    Bonus:
    ML/AI - Candidates with previous ML experience, AI-related development strongly preferred


    Pay Equity:
    In compliance with Pay Transparency Laws, the base salary range for this role is between $135-$175K .

    When determining compensation, a number of factors will be considered:
    skills, experience, job scope, location, and competitive compensation market data.

    A bit about our Process:
    Initial call with Tech Talent Acquisition team (30 mins)
    Hiring Manager interview (45 minutes)
    3 Tech Interviews - 60 minutes each


    Location:


    While we offer fully remote and hybrid employment opportunities, our team strongly desires candidates to be available to work in the pacific coast time zone to work most effectively with our team.


    Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
    Cantina is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

    We recognize our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who share a passion for improving people's lives.

    Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion and many other parts of one's identity.

    Employee's points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.


    Perquisites of the Job/Benefits:
    Flexible working arrangements – remote, office, or hybrid – the choice is often yours – we are open to ensuring quality candidates don't experience barriers to success
    Health Care Benefits – 99% Company-paid health care, dental and vision (through amazing providers). Taking care of our employees and their covered dependents is one way we demonstrate we care
    Monthly Stipend (Compt) – paid monthly (food, fun, travel, education to name a few ... in general almost anything goes)
    Mental wellbeing support – Access to an EAP (personal issues/financial/substance counseling) an on-line therapy for mental health is one more way we demonstrate our care
    Equity – Full-time employees are rewarded with equity – demonstrating we all have a mutual stake in Cantina's success
    401(K) - eligible to participate on day one of employment – save for your future
    Short and Long Term Disability - company paid
    Life Insurance 1 times base pay 100% company paid
    Maternity/Paternity/Adoptive Leaves - generous maternity/paternity benefits
    PTO 15 paid PTO/Vacation days per calendar year
    Holidays - 13 paid holidays per calendar year
    Sick Pay - 9 days per calendar year
    Discounts - through Smart Perks

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