💻 Software Engineer, Backend

About UsWe believe that life is better when you’re with your friends, and our mission is to fill everyone’s life with rich and meaningful friendships. We do this by creating the easiest way to hear your friends’ voices throughout the day, to meet their friends, and to talk about anything. As the world goes increasingly remote, we think being with friends is more important than ever.
We take pride in being a small and productive team, with a relentless focus on building a product that people love. As a company we are well funded, with backing from a16z and dozens of the best angel investors in the world, providing us with years of runway. We love what we do and have a lot of work ahead of us. If this sounds interesting to you, we’d love to talk.
The RoleYou will work as the tech lead of our Talk with New People squad. The tech lead will focus on the live app that's in production today and the roadmap for the team is to enhance the live app functionality to bring in more users.
As a member of our engineering team, you’ll work closely with our founders, product, design, and data teams to solve a dynamic set of user problems and build robust, user-facing features to increase friendship in the world.
We are a remote friendly-company — with our headquarters in San Francisco and a strong commitment to ensuring people can do great work here and thrive without having to live near an office. This role is open to candidates across the U.S

Who you are

• You are experienced. You have great energy. You are a seasoned software engineer with 5+ years of experience, a strong command of relevant programming languages such as Python and Java, experience with storage systems like PostgreSQL and DynamoDB, and a proven track record of designing and implementing performant backend systems at scale. You have demonstrated capabilities to innovate and optimize at the same level. You have led all phases of development including ideation, product specification, prototyping, designing and implementation. This role has a mix of hands-on work as well as lead and architecture work.
• You act like an owner. You are proactive, resourceful, and enjoy highly autonomous environments. You enjoy owning the technical implementation and architecture of the feature set owned by your team working cross-functionally and with your team to …