Senior Backend Software Engineer fmd
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About the Opportunity
At Ninetailed by Contentful you will revolutionize personalization & experimentation for leading businesses worldwide. As a Senior Backend Engineer (f/m/d) youll solve complex technical puzzles and challenges to continuously optimize our low latency APIs processing billions of requests in real time. In combination with Contentfuls Content delivery APIs youll make sure that every customer receives their personalized content experience they deserve. Your work will enable our customers to serve personalized digital user experiences in the most performant way possible.
What to expect
- Design develop and maintain highperformance backend services with a focus on reliability and scalability based on very modern technologies like Cloudflare Workers
- Implement complex CDN & edge based caching solutions that will allow users to retrieve personalized content in the most performant way
- Solve technical challenges in creative ways balancing the tradeoff between performance and elegant software architecture
- Continuously monitor and optimize system performance through benchmarking while making sure the system is well instrumented for observability
- Stay up to date with the latest technologies and constantly evaluate their potential usage at Ninetailed
- Implement defensive coding practices ensuring systems are resilient and faulttolerant
- Guarantee correctness and maintainable code through automated testing
What you need to be successful
- Proven experience in building APIs and services that efficiently handle large volumes of traffic.
- Strong proficiency with serverside TypeScript and API protocol design.
- Experience with serverless architectures ideally edge compute environments such as Cloudflare Workers.
- Experience with CDN operations and caching strategies to optimize system performance.
- Familiarity with lowerlevel languages such as Rust is a plus.
- Handson experience with benchmarking instrumenting code for observability and performance optimization for largescale systems.
- Expertise in defensive coding practices ensuring system robustness and fault tolerance.
- Proficiency in using CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions GitLab CI) and maintaining automated tests with tools like Jest or Mocha.
- Proactive approach with a high sense of ownership.
- Great communication skills in English especially when explaining complex technical concepts.
Whats in it for You
- Fulltime employees receive Stock Options for the opportunity to share in the success of our company
- Fertility and family building benefits including a lifetime reimbursable wallet to support your growing family.
- We value WorkLife balance and You Time! A generous amount of paid time off including vacation days sick days education days compassion days for loss and volunteer days
- Use your personal annual education budget to improve your skills and grow in your career
- Enjoy a full range of virtual and inperson events including workshops guest speakers and fun team activities supporting learning and networking exchange beyond the usual work duties
- An annual wellbeing stipend to care for your physical financial or emotional health
- A monthly communication phone/internet stipend and phone hardware upgrade reimbursement.
- New hire office equipment stipend for hybrid or distributed employees. Get the gear you need to work at your best.
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Who are we
Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organizations digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform Contentful Studio and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration speed and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands regions and channels for organizations around the world including nearly 30 of the Fortune 500. Nearly 800 people from more than 70 nationscontribute their energy and creativity to Contentful working from hubs in Berlin Denver and distributed around the world.
Everyone is welcome here!
Everyone is welcome here is a celebrated component of our culture. At Contentful we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sexual orientation gender gender identity age physical disability or length of time spent unemployed. We invite you to apply and join us!
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
