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Company Description
At our startup, we are building the most scalable and powerful chat API in the world. We have customers from over 150 countries around the world serving a truly wide-range of use cases across communities, marketplaces, on-demand services, games, and e-commerce.

Required Skills: Python, Java, Linux, NoSQL, Unix, Real-time

Job Description
As our Senior Software Engineer you will be building a platform that can scale to some of the largest user-bases across distributed environments with optimal latency; creating a feature-rich yet lightweight and high-performance client-side SDK; and building products and services that can help customers incorporate real-time conversational technologies more rapidly. You will be part of the team building reliable, feature-rich, and scalable real-time conversational experiences across different platforms globally. You will be participating in building the best real-time conversational products and solutions possible.

General Requirements

• 8+ years of experience developing and solving complex engineering problems
• Expert level with Python or Java
• Proven track record helping engineering teams scale (including interviewing, mentoring and leveling up teams)
• Solid understanding of multi-threading and high performance distributed architecture
• Able to work independently and drive results
• Experience handling massive concurrent connections and processing large-scale traffic
• Strong understanding of Unix/Linux systems
• Conversant with under-engineering and over-engineering concepts
• Expert level with Python, Java, and Event-Driven Frameworks
• TCP/IP and network programming experience
• Understanding of RDBMS, NoSQL, and distributed databases

Responsibilities

• Build a global large scale distributed and scalable real-time messaging service
• Design simple, intuitive API to solve complex architectural problems
• Write customer-centric documentation on API and messaging services
• Architect and build efficient servers on our globally distributed infrastructure
• Source the root cause of problems and find the optimal solution
• Ship and maintain real-time systems
• Deploy and operate server clusters within a cloud environment
• Lead impact engineering initiatives, create best practices and mentor more junior engineers

Preferred Skills

• Experience working on real-time chat/messaging system
• Awards from programming competitions (e.g., ACM ICPC, IOI, etc.)
• Understanding of server virtualization, global infrastructures, load balancing, and handling massive data traffic
• Interest in working for a fast-growing global startup

Benefits

• Pick your new laptop
• 4 weeks PTO
• 12 US Paid Holidays
• Flexible work schedule