Backend Engineer at UpCodes

As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll do all backend work to help ship new features for our web app.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• 2+ years of experience with backend engineering
• Clean simple code, even when solving complex problems
• Good systems design
• Ability to learn new tech quickly

TECHNOLOGY STACK

Python, PostgreSQL, Flask, Redis, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus

Description

THE ROLE

As a foundational member of our engineering team, you'll do all backend work to help ship new features for our web app.

We have a frequent cadence of shipping new features and a close connection to our market. With 500k monthly active users spending hundreds of thousands of hours on the platform, each contribution and feature you ship will have a meaningful impact for the users.

Since we're a startup, you'll have to be willing to get your hands dirty with (and learn) technologies across the stack: API design, data engineering, algorithms, startup engineering, analytics, monitoring, web crawling, etc.

EXAMPLE PROJECTS

• Write NLP algorithms to identify references to other sections in the text of the law
• Improve and migrate our data model for the content we host
• Retrieve semi-structured data from various online sources and automate the structuring of the data
• Improve the evaluation framework for our search engine

Job Type: Full-Time

Pay: $110k-$165k base