Senior Fullstack R&D Developer

The Senior R&D Engineer works closely with our product leadership to turn ideas into reality and to quickly assess new features & capabilities before we fully commit to their implementation, specifically:

• You will be leading our research and development into new technologies and capabilities.
• You will be a core team member of our R&D effort responsible for new product feature innovation, proof-of-concept, design, and specification development.
• You will advise our leadership on development feasibility & timeline.
• You will develop & package scalable libraries, frameworks, systems that could be integrated into all of our platforms.
• You will develop rapid prototypes for other teams to review and understand issues & risks during our planning phase.
• You will work on discovering and identifying inefficiencies and scalability issues in technical projects; you’ll then get to design effective solutions to resolve them.
• You will document designs, specifications, flows, etc. and present such findings to both our leadership and technical teams so everyone can fully understand each capability’s nuts & bolts.

• 5+ years of excellent & recent working experience working with technologies like PHP, JavaScript/Typescript, NodeJS, Angular (or React, Vue, etc.), Objective-C/Swift, Python, Golang, etc.
• 5+ years of excellent work experience designing, building, scaling, managing high-performing APIs.
• 5+ years of excellent work experience with both relational and non-relational database systems.
• You enjoy exploring & working with new technologies & better ways of doing things.
• You are comfortable working in a lean startup environment with an aggressive delivery timeline and challenging problems.
• You are a team player who works well across team boundaries to get things done, is willing to wear multiple hats when needed, and does what is best for the product.
• You are very experienced in optimizing code, architecture, and other technical

HUGE PLUS IF YOU ARE/HAVE

• Expert experience and understanding of data systems.
• Expert experience with popular open source frameworks.
• Strong hands-on experience enabling multi-threading, caching techniques, multi-platform synchronization, and microservices.
• Excellent experience and understanding of architectural patterns for a large, high-scale data platform (e.g., well-designed APIs, high volume data pipelines, efficient algorithms).
• Excellent hands-on experience with PaaS, IaaS, CaaS.