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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