Backend Engineer
PHP
Backend Engineer
New York
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Mid
Employment Type
B2B
Operating mode
Remote
Tech stack
Backend
PHP
SQL
Job description
About YouNow
YouNow, a live streaming community of over 52 million registered users, is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team. We're a fast moving, fast growing team working on a cutting edge social video service that touches millions of users and content creators and is altering the digital media landscape.
Job Description
Younow is seeking an experienced backend application engineer, who possesses DevOps or systems experience. You'll be a critical contributor to YouNow's Product Engineering team, supporting product development for features our broadcasters and audience use daily and development for vital infrastructure maintenance and refinement.
YouNow's technical team is highly skilled, knowledgeable, and collaborative. You'll be able to see the impact of your work in real-time, getting feedback about new features live from users on the platform. This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about having a direct impact on the user experience in a highly engaging social streaming platform.
Responsibilities
YouNow, a live streaming community of over 52 million registered users, is looking for a Backend Engineer to join our team. We're a fast moving, fast growing team working on a cutting edge social video service that touches millions of users and content creators and is altering the digital media landscape.
Job Description
Younow is seeking an experienced backend application engineer, who possesses DevOps or systems experience. You'll be a critical contributor to YouNow's Product Engineering team, supporting product development for features our broadcasters and audience use daily and development for vital infrastructure maintenance and refinement.
YouNow's technical team is highly skilled, knowledgeable, and collaborative. You'll be able to see the impact of your work in real-time, getting feedback about new features live from users on the platform. This role is perfect for someone who is passionate about having a direct impact on the user experience in a highly engaging social streaming platform.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product Engineering - Includes product, design, clients, QA and backend team throughout planning, implementation, testing, deployment
- Develop and maintain application business logic to support three client platforms - iOS, Android and web
- Contribute to architectural, design, and process decisions developing features for YouNow, and improving the AWS infrastructure powering those features
- Provide time estimates for stories that are executed during 2-week sprint cycles
- Think independently and proactively challenge project assumptions
- Ensure quality assurance by testing your own work, and collaborating with internal QA team before and after release
- Handle code deployments in both dev and production environments
- Monitor AWS performance metrics, error logs and be on call for PagerDuty alerts
- Be responsive and jump on critical issues and bugs as they arise
- Follow best practices and process as established by the engineering team and company
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline preferred
- English fluency
- 3+ years of experience as a backend developer
- Experience developing applications for a large user base
- Dev ops or systems experience
- Skilled in writing applications in scripting languages, preferably PHP
- Proficient in understanding SQL scripts, writing SQL queries, MySQL and Redshift (PostgreSQL)
- Experience with various AWS Services (Redis, DynamoDB, MySQL, Redshift, EC2)
- Up to date understanding of best practices regarding system security measures
Qualities of an Ideal Candidate
- Critical thinking, analytical and problem solving abilities
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
- Ownership over own and team's performance
- Proactiveness and initiative
- Attention to detail
- Give a sh*t
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