Level Home
Backend Engineer (senior or above)
Austin · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 195 days ago
Distributed SystemsNoSQLRedisDynamoDBCloud PlatformsCI/CD
About the role
- Level is a learning technology company dedicated to helping students build real academic and life skills with confidence and joy. We combine proven curriculum principles with world class interactive design to make meaningful practice something students want to come back to, not something they struggle through.
- We support what teachers, schools, and parents are already doing by increasing student engagement with high quality, standards aligned practice that reinforces classroom learning. That's why we're building:
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust, scalable backend systems, APIs, and microservices for our platform.
- Build highly available, robust, secure, sustainable, and maintainable tech
- Drive analysis and improvement of services' quality and performance
- Implement and advocate for best practices in testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting.
- Own aspects of innovative feature and/or system development, considering usability, scalability, security, and performance
- Experience building and deploying services into cloud environments and infrastructure as code.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver new features and improve existing ones with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and security.
- Knowledge of system design, distributed systems, caching strategies, and asynchronous processing.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing developing successful, highly-available online services.
- Strong experience with backend languages, primarily Kotlin.
- Experience implementing GitOps approach - managing infrastructure, deployments, CI/CD, live operations and documentation as a code.
- Experience in growth software/saas, edtech, or high-scale B2C applications such as streaming or e-commerce
Nice to have
- Familiarity with player data models, real-time services, and telemetry/event tracking.
Skills
- Tools that fit naturally into instruction and help students stay engaged while reducing teacher workload.
- It's a difficult problem that requires brilliant people and tremendous effort over time.
- For educators: Tools that fit naturally into instruction and help students stay engaged while reducing teacher workload.
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