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ID #12329732
State New York
City New york city
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source Yoh - A Day & Zimmerman Company
Showed 2021-04-17
Date 2021-04-16
Deadline 2021-06-15
Category Software/QA/DBA/etc
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Backend Engineer (Remote)

New York, New york city, 10060 New york city USA

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This is a Direct Hire role with our client. Looking for someone with 3+ years of hands on exp. with PHP, MYSQL, and AWS services. Salary: 90k + benefits Job Description Company is seeking an experienced backend application engineer, who possesses DevOps or systems experience. You'll be a critical contributor to the Product Engineering team, supporting product development for features our broadcasters and audience use daily and development for vital infrastructure maintenance and refinement. The companies technical team is highly skilled, knowledgeable, and collaborative. You'll be able to see the impact of your work in real-time, getting feedback about new features live from users on the platform. This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about having a direct impact on the user experience in a highly engaging social streaming platform.

Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with Product Engineering - Includes product, design, clients, QA and backend team throughout planning, implementation, testing, deployment
  • Develop and maintain application business logic to support three client platforms - iOS, Android and web
  • Contribute to architectural, design, and process decisions developing features for the company, and improving the AWS infrastructure powering those features
  • Provide time estimates for stories that are executed during 2-week sprint cycles
  • Think independently and proactively challenge project assumptions
  • Ensure quality assurance by testing your own work, and collaborating with internal QA team before and after release
  • Handle code deployments in both dev and production environments
  • Monitor AWS performance metrics, error logs and be on call for PagerDuty alerts
  • Be responsive and jump on critical issues and bugs as they arise
  • Follow best practices and process as established by the engineering team and company

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred
  • English fluency
  • 3+ years of experience as a backend developer
  • Experience developing applications for a large user base
  • Dev ops or systems experience
  • Skilled in writing applications in scripting languages, preferably PHP
  • Proficient in understanding SQL scripts, writing SQL queries, MySQL and Redshift (PostgreSQL)
  • Experience with various AWS Services (Redis, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redshift, EC2)
  • Up to date understanding of best practices regarding system security measures

Qualities of an Ideal Candidate
  • Critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
  • Ownership over own and team's performance
  • Proactiveness and initiative
  • Attention to detail

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Visit https://www.yoh.com/applicants-with-disabilities to contact us if you are an individual with a disability and require accommodation in the application process.PandoLogic.Category: Technology, Keywords: Backend Engineer

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