As a Principal Backend Engineer I, you'll define architecture, lead technical initiatives, develop scalable features, and enhance coding practices while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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As a Principal Backend Engineer I at Mistplay, you will play a critical role in defining the technical architecture to be able to support the continued growth of the business. You will be working with a diverse and talented team of software engineers, product managers and designers to understand and implement product and engineering driven initiatives.
What you’ll do at Misplay
• Act as the technical subject matter expert to ensure technical capabilities align with our Product team to ensure technical initiatives are well align with our Product roadmap;
• Determining and developing pragmatic and achievable refactoring initiatives. Ensure that our BE engineering members are on the same way;
• Developing and designing highly scalable features and systems.
• Identifying possible risks and dependencies in our projects and mitigating them;
• Breaking down complex technical epics into executable engineering tasks;
• Working with our DevOps team to create an efficient CI/CD pipeline to ensure we can push code to production reliably, confidently;
• Leading code reviews, ensuring that we are growing our codebase in a performant, scalable, maintainable way;
• Run frequent knowledge transfer, lunch & learn sessions with our engineering members to set best practices, and foster a healthy engineering culture.
What you’ll bring to Mistplay
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
• 10+ years experience working in an engineering driven product organization, at least 2 of which leading complex technical initiatives
• Strong knowledge running production grade APIs in a cloud native environment (AWS);
• Strong knowledge in DynamoDB or similar no-sql database;
• Great verbal and written communication skills;
• Ability to lead technical discussions, and keep them on track/point;
• Experience and knowledge at the framework level: ExpressJs, NestJS (an asset);
• Experience with Python (an asset)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and related container technologies (an asset);
• Specifically knowledge of running APIs on ECR/EKS (an asset);
• iOS, Android or Progressive WebApp experience (an asset).
Why Mistplay?
We strive to make our work environment as inviting and fun as possible! Working at Mistplay is coupled with a whole array of perks that we've adopted virtually and in-person: Team Lunches, game nights, company-wide events, and so much more. Our culture is deeply rooted in growth and upheld by a team of smart, dynamic, and enthusiastic people. We utilize data to constantly learn, improve, and adapt. We foster an environment where everyone is encouraged to share their ideas, push boundaries, take calculated risks, and witness their visions come to life.
Top Skills
AWS
Docker
DynamoDB
Expressjs
Kubernetes
Nestjs
Python
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