Backend Engineer

Description

The company is looking for a Backend Engineer who will be responsible for the company's platform scale:

• Optimizing the latency of complex database queries in Postgres or ClickHouse
• Helping the company's customers deploy the company's product in self-hosted, e.g., by updating the k8s helm chart
• Adding Redis queues and a worker container to the stack to execute asynchronous tasks
• Building a POC to try out Clickhouse for the company's needs
• Rebuilding the SDKs to execute networking fully asynchronously
• Write Terraform code to scale the company's containers according to custom metrics

Must-have:

• Strong experience in backend or full-stack development using Python and TypeScript
• Experience with technologies such as Clickhouse, Postgres, Redis
• Knowledge of the trade-offs of handling large amounts of data
• Computer Science or Quantitative degree
• You are a hard worker and thrive working in a small and accountable team
• You want to take ownership in building out the infrastructure of a fast-growing devtool
• You have been a core maintainer of a highly reliable and scaling infrastructure
• You are excited about open-source software
• You have impressive achievements from previous careers and from side projects
• Experience working in a startup environment

Nice-to-have:

• You’ve started a company before or worked at a very early-stage startup
• Experience with or interest in SDK design and DX
• ML/AI experience

Benefits and conditions:

• You will join the early core team and work closely with the founders
• Working in Silicon Valley Startup in Berlin
• Competitive salary and equity packages

Interview process:

1. Intro call with Toughbyte
2. Intro call with a Founder
3. Get to know Product and Tech at a company with a Founder
4. Technical Interview: Coding challenge and Systems Design
5. On-site Super Day