Sr Software Engineer Backend

Respondology
US - Colorado - Denver
April 18, 2024

Respondology is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a rapidly-scaling start-up that is making a difference in the world. This role will be responsible for building our core content moderation technology and will have a direct impact on making social postings positive for their users while lessening harmful content and negativity. Your work will be seen across major platforms and by well-known brands. You will be joining a talented team who likes to have fun but takes their engineering work seriously.
Respondology is a digital marketing AdTech company that is eradicating abuse, hate and spam from social media to reduce toxicity, improve sales, and protect brand equity for the world's most well-known brands and organizations. At Respondology, we leverage Technology for Good…
Remote Role: If you do not live in our beautiful state of Colorado, we are open to 100% remote candidates in NJ, NY, CA, IL, UT, FL & MA. Must be willing to travel to Boulder, CO approximately twice per year for on-site work with your team-and fun!
A Day in the Life
Own the end-to-end delivery of large initiatives, partnering closely with Product and other stakeholders to effectively clear ambiguities and prioritize
Lead a small team of engineers to architect, build and deploy the backend systems and services that power our core products
Introduce new technologies that improve the performance, throughput, and latency of our comment moderation platform
Champion engineering quality within the team, implementing best practices, standards, and processes
Collaborate with a cross-functional team of fullstack, frontend, backend, and machine learning engineers
Requirements
Here's what you need to get our attention:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related degree - or equivalent work experience
Minimum 6 years of professional software engineering experience
Minimum 6 years experience with a backend language, preferably Ruby on Rails
Minimum 2 years experience as a technical lead for a small team of engineers
Experience building, optimizing, and deploying large scale production systems (we process 100s of millions of comments per year)
Experience with Postgres, or other relational databases
Experience with AWS
Experience with queue-based background job processing and message queuing technologies (we use Sidekiq)
Experience with APM technologies (we use DataDog)
Ability to be flexible, learn new libraries, refactor existing code and dive into new areas of the codebase
Proven strong communicator and team collaborator
Demonstrated ability to take ownership of projects, prioritize tasks, work independently, and deliver high-quality results within tight deadlines
Motivated, resourceful and attentive; especially for remote work candidates
Here's what will make us call you for sure:
Familiarity or working knowledge with major social network API's such as Facebook/ Instagram Graph API, YouTube API and/or TikTok Marketing API
Experience with GraphQL
Experience working at a rapidly-growing tech startup
Familiarity with modern machine learning architectures and MLOps
Familiarity with agile software development
Compensation DOE: $130,000-$160,000 plus equity
And if we haven't convinced you yet, here is why you'll want to be part of our team:
We have top-notch product & engineering culture with team members who have your back!
Our product is making the world a better place-you will make an impact!
100% remote or you may come into our beautiful offices if you're near Boulder, CO-dogs welcome (our in-house happy hours are always fun).
Time off is as important as hard work! Salaried employees are on a Flex PTO plan
Generous holidays including a reduced schedule between Christmas and New Year's.
We make sure our team is well cared for with strong health plans
Access to Flexible Spending Accounts Plan
Matching traditional and Roth 401k
Employee Assistance Program
Supplemental leave: self-care and family first!
Life Insurance
COME AS YOU ARE: your gender, your gods, your sex life, your skin color or your big shot uncle don't make a difference here. Respondology, LLC is a progressive and open-minded meritocracy. If you're smart and good at what you do, come as you are.
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