Platform Engineer

This is a remote position.

What we are looking for in You:

• You can lead and influence architectural designs
  
• You enjoy teaching and mentoring colleagues at all levels.
  
• You are a pragmatic programmer that understands how to balance quality, time to ship, and cost
  
• You understand build vs. buy trade-offs
  
• You have a holistic approach to quality
  
• You can improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
  
• You have 3+ years of experience and a proven track record of building software applications at scale in one or more mainstream programming languages as well as having developed web applications at scale using one or more mainstream web application frameworks.
  
• You have 2+ years working with relational databases, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL or non-relational databases like Elasticsearch and Redis
  
• You have 2+ years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting containerized environments.
  
• You have a meaningful understanding of modern micro services architecture.
  
• You have a willingness to work with a distributed team across several neighboring time zones.
  
• You develop code that is easily maintainable, thoroughly documented, and well tested.
  
• You have an understanding of the trade-offs between building new technology and buying existing technology.
  
• You have a passion for learning and to mentor others.
  

Requirements

• You have experience designing and developing APIs, including RPC and HTTP based APIs, ideally through an API Gateway platform such as Kong, Ty k, or Apigee.
  
• Comfortable developing in a container environment like Docker
  
• Familiarity with continuous integration tools like Jenkins or CircleCI
  
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and methodologies
  
• Experience with Terraform, Nomad, and other HashiCorp technologies
  
• Has led teams in making architectural decisions
  

Benefits

• Permanent Work From Home
  
• Great Exposure
  
• Comprehensive Medical Insurance
  
• Excellent team to work with