Back-End Engineer

Join LotusFlare to build scalable, cloud-native systems powering millions worldwide. Work with top engineers, shape global connectivity, and grow in a purpose-driven, flexible environment.

Back-End Engineers at LotusFlare are replacing traditional business backends with an engagement-centric, dynamic product stack. They are responsible for further developing, securing, and scaling the backend infrastructure to support the platform to handle millions of concurrent API calls. Every engineer is an integral part of our global engineering team and is directly responsible for more than half a million users of our platforms. They are working on mission-critical, highly available distributed systems.

* Your day usually starts with a daily meeting/standup/quick sync-up

* Your daily responsibilities include the entire software cycle from developing/testing, to code reviews, and maintaining/managing your code/application on production

* You closely collaborate with product and other functional engineering teams

* You take time out of your day to closely collaborate with your teammates, asking questions or providing answers

* You take ownership of the code you write

Job Requirements:

* Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related technical field

* Backend engineering experience is required. We take a language-agnostic approach and primarily use Node.js, Lua, and Scala; however, experience with other backend languages such as Java, Python, Golang, C++, or similar is equally valuable

* Experience in building secure, scalable web services

* Experience with distributed systems

* Experience with RESTful services

* Good understanding of network stack and HTTP protocol

* Experience with concurrency, multithreading, or asynchronous programming

* Knowledge of data modeling in SQL and/or NoSQL environments

* Experience with (any combination of) AWS, Redis, Kafka, and Cassandra would be a plus