Level Home

Level Home

Platform - Backend Engineer

Austin

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 180 days ago
KotlinSpringCode ReviewGitNoSQLPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchDynamoDBAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDevOpsAPI DevelopmentgRPCKafkaCommunicationCollaborationArgo CD

About the role

  • It's a difficult problem that requires brilliant people and tremendous effort over time.

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate highly available, robust, secure, sustainable, and maintainable components
  • Drive service quality through performance analysis, monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement
  • Take ownership of outcomes from initial design through production operations
  • Champion and implement best practices in testing, CI/CD, and operational excellence
  • you'll own services end-to-end while deeply considering how your technical decisions impact user experiences.

Requirements

  • Solid experience with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform, ArgoCD), GitHub Workflows or alike etc.
  • 5+ years building and operating highly-available online services at scale (100k+ TPS) preferably using Kotlin + Spring Boot + gRPC + Kubernetes
  • Ability to quickly understand and translate user needs into technical solution designs
  • Proven track record of technical ownership of complex online systems and solutions - designing, building, launching, operating, and improving online solutions end-to-end
  • Strong solution architecture and API design skills
  • Solid understanding of both relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, Redis) databases
  • Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams
  • Excellence in code reviews, technical communication, and documentation

Nice to have

  • Experience in edtech, compliance-heavy industries (COPPA, FERPA), or child-safe technology
  • Background in high-scale B2C applications (gaming, streaming, innovative fintech, SaaS)

Skills

  • Tools that fit naturally into instruction and help students stay engaged while reducing teacher workload.
  • GitHub, OpenTelemetry (+ APMs)
  • For educators: Tools that fit naturally into instruction and help students stay engaged while reducing teacher workload.

Benefits

  • Collaborate with product, design, educators, and engineering teams to translate the vision into technical solutions
  • Activities that help your kid catch up or get ahead, build confidence, and minimize homework battles, whether learning at school or at home.

Company info

  • We are committed to helping every person maximize their potential and live a life of meaning.
  • We're seeking a Backend Engineer to join the team architecting, building and operating the Level platform.

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