Remote Software Developer Backend Platform

Description:

• The Software Developer will be part of TextNow's Backend Platform team, utilizing technologies like AWS, Golang, gRPC, micro-services architecture, high-performing databases, streaming, and queueing.
• Responsibilities include designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Tasks involve developing and maintaining core backend services, maintaining code quality, participating in on-call rotations, organizing technical project details, and collaborating with other backend developers.
• The ideal candidate will be a creator of efficient solutions at scale, a brilliant collaborator, decisive, takes ownership, respectfully candid, a self-starter, resourceful, and a versatile technologist.
• Requirements include experience with API services, infrastructure as code tooling, design principles for scalable architectures, relational/nonrelational databases, and CI build platforms.
• Nice to have skills include familiarity with event processing, CI build platforms, telecommunication, legacy stack migration, and Kafka for event processing.

Requirements:

• Experience developing API services with gRPC or REST
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, or others)
• Ability to apply design principles and methodologies for building scalable and high-performance backend architectures
• Experience using relational or nonrelational database technology (MariaDB, RDS, DynamoDB, Redis)
• Familiarity with CI build platforms (GitHub Actions or similar)

Benefits:

• Strong work-life blend
• Flexible work arrangements (WFH, remote, or access to office spaces)
• Employee Stock Options
• Unlimited vacation
• Competitive pay and benefits
• Parental leave
• Benefits for physical and mental well-being (wellness credit and L&D credit)
• Team events, company-wide off-sites, and more
• Emphasis on diversity and inclusion in the workplace