Job Description

Our WishX team embodies the company’s approach to innovation.  It functions as an internal incubator for new business ideas and is empowered to take calculated risks, think creatively, and embrace different perspectives. By constantly iterating and deploying, we have the freedom and flexibility to try out new ideas and work toward the best solutions.  

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WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Own software development projects from Design to Launch & future iterations
• Lead the design, development & implementation of systems based on the business requirements
• Design and implement unit testable code that are highly maintainable
• Design and implement data models/schemas in the data access layer
• Collaborate with both internal and external UI/backend engineers to shape and define API contracts
• Facilitate team communication while encouraging new ideas, designs and experiments

Qualifications

• Significant experience building MVP's with future improvements in mind not being afraid to move forward with existing deficiencies to be later improved
• Proven track record of contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are up 24/7 and easy to maintain and monitor
• Experience designing API's with Test Driven Development, TDD or understand the importance of TDD
• Experience working with both relational and documented oriented datastores such as Postgresql, MySql, MariaDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, etc
• Expert in OOP and building modular unit testable code
• Ability to understand highly complex legacy systems and to come up with improved designs
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous backend processing jobs
• Great written and verbal communication skills
• Established track record of mentoring Junior Engineers and working well with cross functional peers

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience scaling systems with 1 million records to 1 trillion records under various write and read conditions
• Experience migrating data while having near zero production down time
• Experience performance tuning and profiling systems to identify and fix/design around bottlenecks
• In-depth understanding of HTTP and various other protocols
• Experience being involved in or driving statistical experiment design while understanding the statistics behind A/B or multivariate testing

Additional Information

Wish values diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. We do not discriminate based on any legally-protected class or characteristic. Employment decisions are made based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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