Senior Back-End Engineer

Join LotusFlare as a Senior Back-End Engineer to build secure, highly available systems powering millions of users, while growing alongside a collaborative global engineering team.

At LotusFlare, Senior Backend Engineers are replacing traditional business back ends with an engagement-centric, dynamic product stack. You’ll develop, secure and scale the back-end infrastructure that lets our platform handle millions of concurrent API calls.

As part of our global engineering team, you’ll work on mission-critical, highly available distributed systems, and you’ll be directly responsible On a typical day, you’ll:

* Start the day with a quick stand-up with your team.

* Own the full software lifecycle: development, testing, code reviews, and running and maintaining your code in production.

* Work closely with product and other engineering teams.

* Make time to help teammates, whether that’s asking questions or answering them.

* Take ownership of the code you write.

* A BA/BS in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience would be a plus

* 5+ years designing, building and deploying highly scalable, secure web services in production

* We don’t require any particular language. Our stack uses Node.js, Lua and Scala, and we welcome experience in Java, Python, Go, C++ or similar

* Strong knowledge of security best practices, performance optimization and fault tolerance

* In-depth understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as consistency, fault tolerance and consensus algorithms

* Expertise in RESTful API design, including API gateways, API documentation tools and API security

* A deep understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS) and their impact on application performance and security

* Strong understanding of concurrency models and their trade-offs, and experience handling concurrency challenges in high-traffic environments