Senior Software Engineer, Backend Services

Glympse® is the pioneer in real-time, temporary location sharing technology. We
incorporate location sharing into a wide variety of consumer and business
scenarios, providing first-class customer experiences and a robust platform. We’ve
partnered with major brands, including Dell, TruGreen, AAA, Williams Sonoma,
Papa Johns, Steelcase, Charter, and more. We're proud of how our last-mile
solutions help brands deliver a smoother, customer-first experience when people,
products, and services are in motion.

The Glympse Engineering team is looking for an experienced Senior Software
Engineer to join us and help expand our ever-growing list of enterprise customers.

Day to day you will:

• Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed software systems in the context of the Glympse’s cloud platform.
• Write code that is performant, maintainable, clear, and concise.
• Partner well with others to deliver integrated solutions with other teams. Able to self-manage simple engineering collaborations across teams and manage your delivery commitments.
• Develop elegant solutions to complex problems using custom code and off-the-shelf solutions.
• Take project ownership and guide other developers through design, review, and implementation.

What we are looking for:

• Proven track record of developing fast, reliable, scalable distributed web services.
• Real-world experience using asynchronous and concurrent programming models.
• Experience with software engineering best practices ( e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation, and continuous integration ).
• Working knowledge of RESTful API design.
• Working knowledge of large-scale data-tier building blocks (MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, or analogous technologies).
• BS in Computer Science or a related degree, or equivalent work history.
• Experience with fault-tolerant distributed systems (preferred).
• Experience using Golang and Python to develop highly-scalable backend services (preferred).
• Experience with MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, and Kafka at scale (preferred).
• Experience with big data design and technologies – Spark, Kafka, Nifi, Redshift, Airflow, or similar (preferred).
• Experience with cloud-deployed applications using Amazon Web Services (preferred).
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration – Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad or similar (preferred).

What we offer:

We are a small engineering team that works well together. As an organization, we are customer-focused and passionate about building quality software. We listen closely to what customers tell us they need, and we work to deliver and ensure our platform, applications and services are meetings those needs. We are open to trying new things, whether it’s an improvement to an existing feature or something radically different. We want to listen and deliver on these ideas. Developers on the team gain experience with best-in-class tools (Go, Python, Docker, Terraform, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Spark, AWS, etc…).

We offer: Unlimited PTO, 401(k), Healthy, Dental, Disability & Vision insurance, Flexible schedule, Health savings account, Parental leave, Professional development assistance, and more. Our salaries are competitive, and we offer a full suite of benefits to choose from. Glympse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any individuals based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, disability status, or veteran status. You must be authorized to work for any employer at the time of application. We are unable to transfer or sponsor H1B visas at this time or work on a C2C basis.

Glympse is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race, religion, color, disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), age, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.