Position: Senior Backend Engineer (Go or Python)
Company: Akvelon Tech
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Our client is a community of communities where people can dive into anything through experiences built around their interests, hobbies, and passions. They have more than 50 million people visiting
100,000+ communities daily, it is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet.
Their mission is to bring community and belonging to everyone in the world.
As a Backend Engineer, you’ll build and scale the exciting features and services needed to
create real-time experiences and spark connections, which will fuel the next wave of Product’s
growth. With our small team, your work will directly impact hundreds of millions of users around
the world. Join us and help build the future of the Product!
**Responsibilities:**
- Design, build and ship backend services for millions of users to support our international
expansion.
- Move fast while balancing quality. We can’t afford extensive processes, and we also
can’t afford show-stopping bugs. We need people who can balance speed with quality
while quickly building brand-new products.
- Shipping new products and experiments that will increase Product’s ability to understand
and expand our international user base.
- Contribute meaningfully to team strategy. We give everyone a seat at the table and
encourage active participation in planning for the future. Don’t just come along for the
ride.
- Communicate effectively, within the team and across disciplines. Work closely with
product managers and designers to craft compelling user experiences.
- Foster a healthy engineering culture and mentor and coach other engineers.
**Qualifications:**
- 5+ years backend development experience with multiple parts of the backend stack,
from databases to networking to efficient computing. We develop on Go mostly using Postgres, Redis, Thrift, GraphQL and deploy to Docker/k8s on AWS.
- Ability to design and implement complex distributed systems operating under high load.
Experience developing customer-facing public applications is preferred.
- Excellent communication skills. You must be able to collaborate effectively with teams in
a fully-remote environment, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.