THE CHALLENGE
As a Backend Systems Engineer, you’ll own improvements to existing services as Lever scales. We’ll look to you to implement best practices related to increasing usage and increasingly large enterprise accounts as Lever continues to drive up market and tackle more and more complex markets and customers. You’ll be responsible for identifying and anticipating performance bottlenecks across all Lever services and applications. With this amount of responsibility and oversight, we’ll look to you to build the bridge between Platform and Product Engineering.
THE OPPORTUNITY
You will be teach peers patterns and best practices for production systems learned in previous roles as well as those gained from your broad understanding of Lever systems. You will learn from the unique challenges operating a large-scale realtime, eventually consistent data model. You’ll also improve user experience and engagement via performance and reliability improvements, while also helping Product Engineering to continue focusing on feature innovation and product differentiation. Our applications are powered by ShareDB, our distributed realtime application backend. ShareDB syncs all data via Operational Transformation, the same algorithm that powers Google Docs.
THE TEAM
You’ll join a team where everyone—including you—is striving to constantly improve their knowledge of distributed systems engineering and cares about scalable backend services. We are an incredibly supportive team–we love to pitch in when problems arise and give great peer feedback to help each other grow. Our close-knit, cross-functional team is a great chance to grow your knowledge of different domains. Backend engineering works directly with product engineering to build new features and deliver value to customers as well as closely with infrastructure to instrument and deploy new services.
We are passionate about lots of things--reliable and observable backend services, continuously paying down technical debt, creating a great hiring experience, and a great user experience--and we love sharing those passions with each other.
THE TECH STACK
JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, DerbyJS, ShareDB, IMAP, SMTP, Gmail and Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange, AWS
Learn more about our Tech Stack on the engineering blog
