Backend Engineer at UpCodes

2 years ago Development & Programming Middle Full-Time 110,000-165,000 $/Year

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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