AllTrails

SWE II Software Engineer, Backend (Remote)

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About AllTrails

AllTrails is the most trusted and used outdoors platform in the world. We help people explore the outdoors with hand-curated trail maps along with photos, reviews, and user recordings crowdsourced from our community of millions of registered hikers, mountain bikers, and trail runners in 150 countries. AllTrails is frequently ranked as a top-5 Health and Fitness app and has been downloaded by over 50 million people worldwide. AllTrails was selected as Apple's App of the Year in 2023!

Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems so that we can get more people outside having healthy, authentic experiences and a deeper appreciation of the outdoors. Join us!  

Bay Area employees are highly encouraged to come into the office one day a week.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Work across our stack including Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Redis, AWS, Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Identify and resolve problems that may occur anywhere in the stack when root causes are not readily apparent
  • Improve the scalability of our database through query optimization and architecture upgrades
  • Take end to end ownership and responsibility for architecture, deployment, and maintenance of new and existing services
  • Coordinate tasks with your teammates and collaborate with the entire company to refine requirements to deliver the best product to our customers
  • Analyze and optimize server-side APIs and build pipelines for efficiency and performance
  • Join our on-call rotation and be a first responder to incidents

Requirements:

  • 5+ years software engineering experience
  • 2+ years Ruby/Rails, Python/Django or similar experience
  • Familiarity with the entire stack - web servers, the application layer, caching, databases
  • Strong understanding of MySQL, PostgreSQL, or other relational and non relational databases
  • Proficiency with high-throughput distributed systems hosted on AWS
  • Experience with Monitoring, Logging, Reporting and Alerting frameworks like DataDog and NewRelic
  • Proficiency with Git/Github or other distributed version control systems
  • Self-motivation and a deep sense of pride in your work
  • Curiosity, humility, and open-mindedness
  • Passion about web technologies and AllTrails’ mission to connect people to the outdoors
  • Humility, empathy, and open-mindedness - no egos

Bonus Points:

  • Exposure to AWS services like Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, RDS, Aurora, EKS, Neptune
  • Knowledge of Vitess or other database sharding technologies
  • Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
  • Terraform and other Infrastructure as Code tooling
  • Experience with authentication standards such as OAuth 2.0 or JWT
  • Experience with Elastic, Algolia, or similar tools

Our Commitment to You:

  • A competitive and equitable compensation plan. This is a full-time, salaried position that includes equity.
  • Physical & mental well-being: health, dental and vision benefits + monthly stipend for wellness expenses.
  • Trail Days: No meetings first Friday of each month to go test the app and explore new trails!
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Flexible parental leave. 
  • Remote employee equipment stipend to create a great remote work environment. 
  • Annual continuing education stipend. 
  • Discounts on subscription and merchandise for you and your friends & family.
  • An authentic investment in you as a human being and your career as a professional.
Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.

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