Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Raya is a company focused on enriching lives through quality in-person interactions, and they are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for their Core Discovery team. The role involves building and operating server software, particularly focusing on location-based systems and enhancing user experiences through collaboration and continuous learning.
Responsibilities
- Product Ownership: Collaborate, build, and lead key components of our Core Discovery services, with a focus on the Maps and Location surfaces and our Directory search experience
- Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams, ranging from UX designers to data scientists, ensuring our solutions are comprehensive and user focused
- Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest in Raya's tech ecosystem, ensuring our solutions are scalable, maintainable, and innovative
- User-Centric Development: Prioritize and advocate for top-tier user experiences, utilizing feedback loops and data-driven methodologies to define and refine product features
- Operational Excellence: Navigate the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), ensuring agile methodologies, CI/CD practices, and Raya's best practices are integrated into all development phases
Skills
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in modern software development environments, with a track record of delivering scalable and maintainable systems
- Demonstrated expertise in system design, architecture, and mastery in Node.js and TypeScript
- Proven experience in building and scaling backend systems in production at a startup or fast-moving environment
- Production experience with location-based systems: geospatial data, geo indexing, proximity and nearby queries, and mapping surfaces. This is the primary need for this role
- Strong data fundamentals across a relational database (PostgreSQL) and a document store (MongoDB), including indexing and query performance
- Enthusiasm around new AI tools and frameworks, and a willingness to quickly adopt emerging best practices
- Experience building search systems (relevance, ranking, Elasticsearch or similar) for a consumer product. Strongly preferred
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- $50 a day food delivery budget
- Equity based employment
- A great culture
- Learning opportunities
- Unlimited vacation
- 12 weeks paid parental leave
- We pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they've never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity
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