Title: Software Engineer, Backend 
Location: US-Remote

Job Purpose: Join the LTK Family! We are looking for talented developers who are passionate about tackling challenging features and interesting problems at scale. You’ll be working with a team of highly motivated and fast-moving professionals focused on creating innovative features, services, and products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems using Golang and related technologies.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code that adheres to best practices and coding standards.
• Write automated tests to ensure high code quality and reduce regression risks.
• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to other team members.
• Troubleshoot and debug production issues and provide timely solutions.
• Continuously improve the performance, scalability, and reliability of our systems.
• Drive tasks to completion and take ownership of projects.
• Work and succeed in a fast-paced and agile development environment.
• Identify and drive improvements to our software and development processes.
• Work with distributed teams across different time zones.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• History of designing and building highly scalable distributed systems in a cloud environment.
• Experience writing services in Golang, Python.
• Experience with AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, and RDS.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Experience with CICD tools such as GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, and web protocols (REST, HTTP, etc.).
• Have built scalable internal and public-facing APIs (REST, JSON, HTTP).
• Comfortable shipping code multiple times per day.
• Ability to model and conceptualize complex systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to have:

• Experience with non-relational data stores such as DynamoDB or Cassandra.
• Knowledge of domain-driven design.
• Experience integrating systems for auth and identity management.
• Familiar with feature flags and A/B testing.
• Familiar with knowledge of observability tools such as DataDog.

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