Zencastr · 3 months ago
Senior Backend Engineer (Remote)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expZencastr is a fully distributed team passionate about transforming the podcasting industry. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer with significant experience in Node.js and a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals to help build high-performance applications and contribute to a fast-growing startup.
AudioBroadcastingMedia and EntertainmentPodcastSocial MediaSoftwareWeb Apps
Responsibilities
Have significant experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals
Have a good understanding of computer science fundamentals
Enjoy writing Javascript or Typescript
Have an eye for performance
Be a team player
Have good communication skills
Have a passion for high performance applications
Have significant open source contributions
Work in a fast growing startup
Have empathy for the end user
Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
Work with world class engineers, Phd’s, and designers in a fully distributed team
Work in an agile and fast changing environment
Contribute to unique challenges and support to solve them
Demonstrable knowledge of building scaleable consumer based apps
Strong experience with unit, integration, and load testing
Experience building APIs
Experience with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, Digital Ocean)
Experience working in high traffic, low latency applications
Good dev ops experience
Digital Signal Processing experience
Strong SQL knowledge
AI experience
Qualification
Required
Have significant experience with Node.js and good knowledge of JS fundamentals
Have a good understanding of computer science fundamentals. You might not have gone to school for it, but you know the difference between heap and stack, different time complexities, and which patterns to use and when
You are ambitious. You might want to build your own company one day or have tried to tackle the toughest tech problems just for fun
You enjoy writing Javascript or Typescript
You have an eye for performance. Whether thinking about the latest client side bundling techniques, or the proper way to shard a mongo database, you want things to be fast
You are a team player
You have good communication skills
5+ years of Typescript, Node.js development
Strong document / key-value store knowledge (Redis, MongoDB)
Strong SQL knowledge
Demonstrable knowledge of building scaleable consumer based apps
Strong experience with unit, integration, and load testing
Experience building APIs
Experience with cloud APIs (Google Cloud, Digital Ocean)
Preferred
You have a passion for high performance applications
You have significant open source contributions
You want to work in a fast growing startup. Which comes with the blood, sweat and tears of working to disrupt an established industry
You have empathy for the end user. A spec is a conversation starter, as an advocate for the end user you always are thinking about how to best serve their needs
You have an eye for code quality and you strive to uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design
Experiencing working in high traffic, low latency applications
Good dev ops experience
Digital Signal Processing experience
AI experience
Benefits
Equity commensurate to your contribution in a profitable company
Health insurance
4 weeks PTO
Freedom to work where you please
Company
Zencastr
The easiest way to record your remote podcast interviews in studio quality
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$4.6MKey Investors
Kickstart
2022-03-23Series Unknown
2021-02-22Equity Crowdfunding
2021-02-16Seed· $4.6M
Leadership Team
Adrian Lopez
Co-Founder & CRO
Josh Nielsen
Founder
Recent News
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