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

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Nift • Boston, MA, United States
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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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