Senior Backend Engineer – Scaling

Time zones: EST (UTC -5), CST (UTC -6), MST (UTC -7), PST (UTC -8), AKST (UTC -9), HST (UTC -10), ART (UTC -3), UTC -4, UTC -4:30, UTC -3, UTC -2, JST (UTC +9), CST (UTC +8), WIB (UTC +7), MMT (UTC +6:30), BST (UTC +6), NPT (UTC +5:45), IST (UTC +5:30), UZT (UTC +5), IRDT (UTC +4:30), GST (UTC +4), LINT (UTC +14), TOT (UTC +13), CHAST (UTC +12:45), LHST (UTC +10:30), AEST (UTC +10), ACST (UTC +9:30), ACWST (UTC +8:45), MART (UTC -9:30), NUT (UTC -11)

What you’ll do:
Be a model and mentor for writing well-architected, well-tested and easy to understand services in Go that help our customers easily send timely & relevant messages at scale
Apply your unique perspective to help us define and build the next generation of features and infrastructure needed to help our customers and our company to flourish
Work with our tech support teams to diagnose operational issues and help our customers to achieve their goals with our product
Take an active role in a friendly supportive team that encourages you and the entire company to grow as individuals, professionals and teams
Mentor your coworkers through code review, pair programming, team collaboration, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices together
What we’re looking for:
A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make great decisions in an empathetic and respectful way
Experience working with customers and applying a deep understanding of their needs to produce timely solutions to their real-world problems
A solid understanding of problems of scalability and experience building out performant distributed applications on cloud infrastructure.
Comfort working in UNIX environments and applying modern collaborative development practices.
Preferably experienced in Go
Experience in working with RDB systems, preferably MySQL
Ability to deliver high quality solutions quickly and in a collaborative environment
Experience working within a distributed company is preferred

How to apply
Apply at the link below and tell us why you’re interested in the position! There is no advantage to applying early so put your best foot forward. We plan to respond to all applicants with a status update about your application. 
Here’s what you can expect from our hiring process (order is subject to change): 
45 minute video call with the Hiring Manager
45 minute video call with two potential teammates (PM and/or Eng)
Project review call with PM & Engineer