Senior Software Engineer, BackendNift • Boston, MA, United States

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Nift • Boston, MA, United States

4 hours ago

Job type

Full-time

Job description

Overview

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Nift is redefining how customers discover new businesses. With millions of people using Nift each month, our real-time AI platform is built for massive scale on AWS. Our small but nimble product team loves tackling big complex engineering challenges. We look for smart engineers who are passionate about building, owning, and scaling features, while finding creative solutions to technical obstacles.

As a Senior Software Engineer , you will own projects from start to finish, get excited about writing clean and reliable code, and play a key role in helping to build and scale our AWS infrastructure . This is a high-impact role with direct visibility into how your work drives growth.

One of Nift's core values is that we make decisions based on data, not seniority or hunches. To be successful in this role, you must be data-driven. You must have a passion for continuously measuring and improving our customers' experience, and a natural gravitation towards AWS, scalability, and performance related projects.

Team Tech Stack

Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
RSpec
JavaScript
HTML5
Vue.js
Redis

What you will do

Own your assigned development projects from start to finish

Collaborate with our Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance and evolve our AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.)

Implement CI / CD pipelines and monitor system health

Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack

Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues, and proactively identify areas for improvement

Write clean, tested, maintainable codeand help others do the same through code reviews

Required Skills

Proficient in Ruby on Rails

Experience with SQL databases

Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting

Comfortable with CI / CD workflows and Linux environments

Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns

Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Able to persevere through engineering challenges : willingness to embrace and not shy away from a problem you haven't seen before

Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving

Experience with distributed systems

Experience performance tuning and scaling systems with high volumes of user traffic

Experience with Apache Spark

Familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL

What you need

Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a Backend / Infrastructure Software Engineer

Passion for backend and infrastructure development

Self-motivation, grit, & tenacity

Ownership Mindset : Proactive and self-driven with a strong sense of initiative, consistently taking responsibility, and exceeding expectations

What you get

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical / Dental / Vision), and we offer all full-time employees the potential to hold company equity

Flexible remote work

Unlimited Responsible PTO

Great opportunity to join a growing, cash-flow-positive company while having a direct impact on Nift's revenue, growth, scale, and future success

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Marketing Services

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