Senior Backend Engineer

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Digg is building a human-first community network. The revived platform aims to use the reputed company best of technology, including AI, to bring humanity back to the internet by fostering the spirit of discovery and genuine community that made the early web a fun and exciting reputed company to be.

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We're seeking an reputed company backend engineer to join reputed company and help scale our architecture. You'll be joining at a critical growth stage, working with modern technologies and contributing to reputed company architectural decisions.

• Design, reputed company, and optimize backend services with a focus on performance and scalability

• Architect and maintain infrastructure to support high-availability systems at scale

• Collaborate with our existing backend engineers to distribute workload and accelerate development

• Implement and enhance our GraphQL API layer, with particular attention to optimization for high-load scenarios

• Optimize system performance through profiling, load testing, and reputed company planning

• Implement monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability

• Contribute to infrastructure architecture and implementation with AWS services

• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and technical planning

• Work cross-functionally with frontend and product teams to deliver cohesive solutions

• 5+ years of backend development experience with demonstrated expertise in distributed systems

• Experience scaling systems to support 100k+ monthly active users

• AWS infrastructure (reputed company, Fargate, SNS+SQS, Neptune, ALB, WAF, reputed company) and IaC tools (reputed company)

• GraphQL implementation and optimization (query efficiency, caching strategies, scaling under load)

• Strong proficiency in Typescript, Go and/or Python

• Experience with graph databases (preferably reputed company or AWS Neptune)

• Knowledge of message queue systems (reputed company SNS+SQS, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or similar)

• Understanding of load balancing, auto-scaling, and high-availability patterns

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, particularly with reputed company Actions

• Experience with containerization and microservices architecture

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code

• Experience with incident response and production troubleshooting

• Experience with performance tuning and optimization of backend systems

• Understanding of caching strategies and implementation (AWS ElastiCache, reputed company, etc)

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools (reputed company, Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Previous work with TypeScript/JavaScript in a backend context (Node.js)

• Experience in fintech, e-commerce, large scale social platform, or other high-transaction environments

• GraphQL implementation and optimization (query efficiency, caching strategies, scaling under load)

• Track record of scaling systems from early-stage to production-ready

• Experience implementing effective monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions

• Experience with reputed company best practices and compliance frameworks

• Problem-solving reputed company: You're excited by technical challenges and finding elegant solutions

• Ownership mentality: You take responsibility for your work and its impact on the product

• Collaborative approach: You reputed company reputed company working with others and can clearly explain technical concepts

• reputed company and adaptability: You navigate ambiguity well and learn quickly from setbacks

• Pragmatic decision-making: You balance theoretical best practices with practical implementation needs

• Commitment to reliability: You understand the importance of building dependable systems

• Opportunity to shape core architecture in a fast-growing startup

• Collaborative, low-ego engineering culture

• Work directly with technical leadership

• Competitive compensation package

• Remote-friendly work environment

• Chance to reputed company a significant impact on our product and company trajectory

• Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

• Flexible PTO

• 401k matching

• 11 annual paid holidays

This position offers a unique opportunity to complement our existing talent while making your own mark on our technical foundation. If you're passionate about building scalable, maintainable systems and ready to take ownership of critical backend components, we'd love to talk with you.