Senior Backend Software Engineer

This is an opportunity to be the first full-time Senior Backend Engineer and join an AI tech company that has the potential to become one of the top Enterprise AI tech platforms over the next decade.

Imagine joining SalesForce as one of the first 10 engineers.

You will get to work closely on a day to day basis directly with the CTO, VP of Engineering and AI Engineering team, play a major role in creating one of the greatest data first platforms in the world and grow rapidly along with the company.

• We'll grow from 70 employees to 125+ employees in 16 months.
• We're a category leader (13000+ global customers) with a product that could become one of the greatest enterprise platforms of all-time, let alone the top recruiting software platforms of all-time.
• Top 1% engineers, product designers, CS team including former MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Waterloo and tier 1 startups. This team is special.

We are a team of passionate high-performers who want to work with other talented and self-motivated individuals. We are a highly collaborative and supportive group with a team first mentality. We all care about the world around us and want to contribute in a big way to improving society.

*Who are we looking for?
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We are looking for someone who is excited to work hard to contribute to help us on our mission to build one of the greatest enterprise web applications of all-time, and enjoys solving complex technical problems with massive data and has distributed systems experience. We want someone who works best in a fast-paced environment, desires growth, take risks on bold ideas, and is open to learn from and teach other world-class engineers.

*What will you do?
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• Work on Loxo's most challenging backend engineering projects
• Work closely with our Data and Artificial Intelligence teams and product suite
• Build new back-end features and improve existing capabilities and work on solving complex technical challenges across the data suite
• Work with massive data sets
• Work on a day to day basis directly with the CTO, VP of Engineering and AI Engineering team
• Quickly troubleshoot and address critical bugs as they arise
• Support app infrastructure to maintain reliability and scalability
• Distributed Systems and high performance
• Tackle a variety of technical problems and consistently contribute to all parts of the code base**
• Culture that avoids meetings and bureaucracy and are simply deeply passionate about world class software and achieving world class things together

*What skill do you need to have?
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• 5+ years of professional experience preferred, but we are open to talking with anyone whose interests and experience align with our vision
• Expertise in Python, SQL and relational databases is a must have
• Backend languages java or RoR or C++
• Distributed systems experience a major plus
• Candidates who take ownership and have the experience and passion to solve complex problems and get the job done right the first time vs someone smart with little experience isn't going to be the right fit
• Previous experience solving massive web scalability challenges a major plus
• Experienced working with big data and a strong computer science foundation
• Computer Science degree or equivalent

Does this sounds like you?

Passionate about programming with a strong desire to be an innovator at the state-of-the-art in enterprise b2b software at the intersection of product design, massive data, and artificial intelligence
Delivery oriented with an understanding of the tradeoffs between complete and perfect
Motivated, self-starter with the discipline to proactively identify issues and consistently produce reliable, quality work
Team player with a willingness to wear multiple hats
Happy, honest, and fun to work with individual