Remote Sr. Backend Software Engineer – Loud Nerd – USA

Job Description

Job title: Remote Sr. Backend Software Engineer

Company: Loud Nerd

Job description: Job Summary:

This team is building the next generation fund management platform for a variety of

investors from pension funds to endowments and everything in between. The software

efficiently evaluates portfolios, offers deep insights and helps mitigate operational risk to power

investment decisions.

This position is working on a team to build out the performance, contributions and attributions

features and as a result, here are the kinds of projects you will likely work on in the foreseeable

Future:

Build and deploy maintainable, highly available, fault tolerant pure functional well-typed software primarily in Scala

Design parallel and concurrent data pipelines from multiple data sources with correctness and efficiency in mind

Design service-oriented APIs for consumption by multiple clients and consumers

Identify, isolate, and troubleshoot system bottlenecks or cross service problems

Sometimes you might need to change the web app which is written in JS/TS

Occasionally you will need to inspect legacy software written in other languages

When needed you might be asked to pull up your sleeves and write some operational automation, configuration, and provisioning

Tech Stack:

Backend: Scala, AWS, cats, cats-effect, http4s and doobie

Database: Snowflake, MSSQL, DynamoDB

Ops: Kubernetes (AKS), Nix, Docker, Lambda, Terraform, S3, RDS, Honeycomb, Gitlab CI

Requirements:

We are seeking a senior level backend software engineer with experience in Scala and/or pure functional programming and good understanding of systems with the following experience:

At least 5 years full lifecycle software development including on-call for backend services.

Demonstrated effective remote work doing a mix of independent, collaborative, and supportive software development work such as:

Independent: adding new features based on a domain description and general idea of codebase organization or troubleshoot and fix defects based on bug reports that may or may not include stack traces

Collaborative: work with others on the team to deliver software including but not limited to reviewing merge requests and responding to questions on your merge requests, following up with other teams to resolve issues, and be involved in the design and architecture discussions of the team.

Supportive: responding to teammate queries for help when you are able or reviewing code changes for other teammates.

Have experience in a well-typed functional language such as Scala, F# or Haskell with a strong interest in Scala and pure well-typed functional programming with commercial, open source, or personal experience using common FP abstractions like monoids, functors, traversables, applicatives, and/or monads.

Some background in backend distributed systems and understanding of failure modes and techniques for building scalable and highly available services.

Competent at troubleshooting on the command-line on Linux with various tracing tools such as strace, new EBPF tools, ss/netstat, /proc filesystem, etc.

Expected salary: $160000 – 180000 per year

Location: USA

Job date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:42:56 GMT

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