Sr. Backend Software Engineer

Join Firework – Where Innovation Meets Impact. We're a global AI and video commerce company seeking a skilled Sr. Backend Engineer to contribute deep technical expertise and scale our high-performance backend systems.

Requirements

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and the rest of the engineering team to design, spec, and build elegant and scalable solutions across multiple platforms
• Design and create new API's in the Elixir Phoenix framework to be used in our core products
• Writing optimized PostgresQL and Cassandra queries and creating high performance indices
• Working with in-memory data stores, such as Redis, to improve scalability and responsiveness
• Debug issues across the entire stack using logging and monitoring tools
• Review code by your peers, offering help and insight from your experience
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Ensure coherence of all aspects of projects as an integrated system and uphold overall technical quality
• Strategize and develop ideas for new programs, products, or features by monitoring industry developments and trends
• Define all aspects of development from appropriate technology and workflow to coding standards