Senior Platform Backend Engineer

Description

Fiverr’s Platform-Core group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our high-impact team. This is a unique opportunity to help shape the backbone of a global platform, enabling engineers to build scalable and resilient services.

As a Senior Software Engineer at Fiverr, you’ll design and build high-performance APIs and infrastructure that power our core systems. You’ll work on developing frameworks used by services that demand supporting millions of users across the world.

The right person for this role is passionate about building systems that are optimized for scalability, efficiency, quality, and uptime. If you are someone who gets excited with sub-millisecond service response time in a large scalable platform, then this is the role for you. You will be working with cutting-edge technologies such as Kotlin, Nodejs, Typescript, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Redis, and many more...

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?

• Manage the full development lifecycle: architecture, design, development, deployment, and monitoring.
• Develop highly scalable, reliable, and maintainable core services with robust testing.
• Collaborate closely with team members to meet product, tech and business objectives.
• Explore and experiment with emerging technologies to ensure future scalability and growth.
  
  

Requirements

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in distributed backend systems.
• Experienced developer with a passion for excellence and very strong coding skills.
• Excellent understanding of modern web application architecture and design.
• Strong knowledge of modern software languages (one of NodeJs, Java, Kotlin, etc).
• Strong knowledge working with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced highly committed environment.
• BSc/MSc in Computer Science from a leading institute or technology army experience.
• Experience with administering large-scale web applications on modern platforms.
• Enthusiasm for achieving sub-millisecond gains in service response time.
• Experience dealing with production issues at scale.
  
  

At Fiverr, we’re not about checklists. If you don’t meet 100% of the requirements for this role but still feel passionate about the position and think you have the right skills and qualifications to excel at it, we want to hear from you.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

At Fiverr, we prioritize diversity. We celebrate difference and embed it into every aspect of our workplace and product, as well as our community. Fiverr is proud and committed to providing equal opportunity employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, citizenship, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In addition, Fiverr will provide accommodation to individuals with disabilities or a special need.