(Full Time) Software Engineer, Backend at Zeplin (United States)
Software Engineer, Backend
Zeplin United States
Date Posted: 02 Sep, 2022
Work Location: San Francisco, United States
Salary Offered: Not Specified
Job Type: Full Time
Experience Required: No experience required
Remote Work: Yes
Vacancies: 1 available
As the Zeplin crew, we’re building an app used by tens of thousands of product teams daily. While creating a common language for our fellow designers and developers, we care deeply about building a product that delights them.
As a Software Engineer on the Backend team, you will be building the next generation of Zeplin’s API and real-time collaboration services, engineering for performance across scalability, redundancy, and reliability.
Our backend stack runs on AWS, built on technologies like Node.js, MongoDB, Redis, and RabbitMQ.
Responsibilities
- Implementing the next generation of Zeplin API, solving challenging problems at the intersection of computational systems and user experience
- Advocating automated testing and code quality
- Constantly monitoring and improving the performance for all backend stacks
- Responding to alerts, pings, pages, and queries
- Thinking ahead to sustain reliability and availability by building instrumentation and profiling tools, accommodating our rapidly growing user base
- Following new technologies, being eager to adapt them
- Implementing automated services for repetitive day-to-day tasks
- Answering daily questions from users, collaborating with Support Engineers to investigate and solve support issues
Requirements
- Knowledge of Zeplin and passion for the product
- Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and programming languages
- Strong knowledge of cloud architecture and application deployment
- Understanding of basic security concepts (e.g., Symmetric and Asymmetric encryption, Secure Key Exchange)
- Clear and positive communication skills in written and spoken English
Preferred Experience
- Minimum 4 years of relevant professional experience
- Thorough architecture understanding, both on a theoretical level (e.g., RDBMS vs. NoSQL) and on an applied level (e.g., Redis vs. Cassandra, RabbitMQ vs. Kafka)
- Experience with Amazon Web Services
- Experience with data privacy and protection
- Experience with JavaScript, including concepts like asynchronous programming, prototypes, closures
About Zeplin
Zeplin is a connected space for product teams to share designs, generate specs, assets, and code snippets. We’ve reached over 5 million users from thousands of product teams, including Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, Microsoft, and many more. We’re a Y Combinator startup backed by notable investors like Elad Gil, Mike Maples, and Kevin Hale. We’re a small, distributed crew with offices in San Francisco, Istanbul, and London.
Zeplin started as one piece of the product development cycle. And now designers and engineers interact at every point, from idea to production. Our goal is to help with all the issues that product teams might face in this process.
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