Senior Backend Developer

Company Introduction

At Shutterfly, our purpose is to share life’s joy by connecting people to what matters as the leading platform for personalized products.

Shutterfly’s software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of users will purchase personalized products. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas.

Job Description

We are looking for some exceptional backend engineers for our Personalization team. The mandate for this team is to envision, develop, and manage the systems / workflows that enable Shutterfly to automatically generate products and to recommend them at the right time with the right content. A huge challenge!

Responsibilities

• Help develop the next-generation of Shutterfly product creation services
• Analyze, design and develop scalable services and components in the AWS Cloud
• Debug, maintain and improve the backend infrastructure running on AWS, enhancing its ability to process millions of images per day
• Design and build flexible pipelines that can rapidly evolve to handle new technologies and modeling approaches
• Turn requirements into simple, elegant, optimal solutions
• Work with team members and other groups to achieve company goals

Skills And Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Wealth of experience (Five or more years) as a backend engineer, writing in Python, Node.js or the like
• Experience in cloud computing and/or AWS services (Two or more years)
• Experience designing and implementing distributed and scalable systems
• Experience developing and working with RESTful web services and client-server architectures
• Experience with working over Linux OS
• Self-direction, ambition, and an eagerness to learn new things
• Ability to take high-level project concepts and turn them into well thought out system designs
• Listens / curious / adaptable / collaborative
• Must have a positive, Can Do! Attitude and willing to have fun while working

Bonus points for:

• Participated in an end-to-end big data and/or large-scale performance challenge
• Experience with big data technologies (ideally Spark)