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
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