Sr. Back End Engineer Job New York New York USA,Software Development

Location: New York

Way Up is the go-to platform for early-career professionals to explore opportunities, receive advice, and get discovered by employers.

Founded by Liz Wessel and JJ Fliegelman in 2014, Way Up is a mission-driven organization and has rapidly grown to 54 employees, is used by over 3 million recent grads & college students, and partners directly with over 13,000 companies.

Job Description

Way Up is at a pivotal point in its development. Now experiencing its most rapid growth to date, the company needs a Full Stack Engineer. We're looking for an experienced backend developer to join us to help create new features and manage our infrastructure. As we continue to expand and add new products, you will completely own your product and be empowered to make the major architectural decisions that go with releasing any product.

Specifically, you will:

Lead the design and development of an end to end product for launch later this year
Collaborate with the team members on API development
Address our growing need for scalable architectures, systems, and patterns
Make strategic infrastructure decisions to prepare the site for scale
Champion and spearhead our technical standards throughout our team
Work on some interesting knowledge domains, which include:
NLP
ETL processing

Qualifications

Bachelors and/or Masters in Computer Science/Engineering OR related field
4+ years in software development or related field
Experience working on backends that are scalable, fault tolerant, well-documented and most importantly testable
Experience with server monitoring/logging and triage tools
Strong object oriented programming skills
Experience with caching tech like NGINX
Experience with technologies such as Django, Python, Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, etc.

Additional Information

Great to have:

Familiarity with Django Rest Framework
Experience with multiple ORMs
Experience with message brokers and frameworks (i.e. RabbitMQ, Celery)
Some front-end development experience, particularly with React/Angular

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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