Summary: As a Platform Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the backend infrastructure and services used by our VR training simulations. You will work closely with multiple teams to define data contracts and endpoints, capture events, and perform analytics to optimize the learning experience for our trainees. Additionally, you will collaborate with product managers, VR developers and other stakeholders to implement services that support new training simulation features. Your expertise in microservices architecture, data contracts, and analytics will be crucial in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our backend platform services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and develop high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services for our VR platform, utilizing best practices in software development and architectural design.
- Collaborate with the VR team to define data contracts and events schema that will be used for simulation scoring and measurement of a trainee’s learning experience.
- Work with the product manager to define and implement platform service features that align with business requirements and user needs.
- Optimize and support the existing platform pipeline used for capturing events from production released simulations. This pipeline is used for mining events and calculating scores for a trainees’ VR experiences.
- Ensure code quality, security, and performance of the backend platform services, through code reviews, testing, and optimization techniques.
- Troubleshoot and resolve backend issues, including performance bottlenecks, data integrity, and system failures, in a timely manner, working closely with relevant teams and stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, promoting best practices, coding standards, and continuous improvement in backend engineering.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related coursework
- 2 to 4 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend systems and services
- Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong background in designing and building high-throughput low-latency distributed systems
- Proven experience developing RESTful APIs
- Experience with using Python as a server-side language
- Knowledge of relational database technologies, such as PostgreSQL
- Proficiency in using AWS services such as Fargate, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SQS and RDS
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively
- Ability to work in an agile environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
What We Offer:
The base salary range for this position is expected to be between $130,000 and $150,000, with the actual base salary amount dependent on a number of factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s credentials, relevant experience, and primary job location. In addition to salary this role may be eligible for additional company benefits such as stock options, 401(k), paid vacation and sick time, and medical/dental/vision insurance.
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