Senior Backend Engineer

Miles is a universal rewards app similar to a frequent flyer program but for all forms of transportation. Miles delivers value for every mile traveled, across every mode of travel, anywhere in the world. Whether by car (as a driver, passenger, or rideshare), plane, train, subway, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the Miles app effortlessly awards users’ travel - regardless of where their journey takes them. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time - for cash from PayPal or gift cards from amazing brands such as Amazon, Starbucks, Subway, AMC, Burger King, ULTA Beauty, and many more.

Miles is a Silicon Valley-based startup (having raised $28Mn) with backing from prominent VCs (Porsche, Scrum, JetBlue, Translink, Liil, Urban Us, Sony, Panasonic, and many more). Join the Miles family and be part of this revolutionary program!

Miles is looking for an outstanding Backend Engineer. This is a key role in helping shape the Miles brand as Miles continues to grow and strengthen its leadership in the mobility and loyalty industries. You will be working with a great team from diverse backgrounds in a collaborative and supportive environment. We solve a wide variety of interesting technical challenges and continually build up our platform to power the next generation of scale and features. We partner closely with Product, Design, UX, and mobile teams to build and ship the most impactful features.

About You

You want to join an early startup on a fast growth trajectory. You are self motivated, take end to end ownership, communicate effectively, and are a fast learner.

Responsibilities

• Advance the platform for the next generation of features, scale, and reliability.
• Collaborate with Product, Design/UX, and mobile engineers to provide feedback, plan, and execute on roadmap features.
• Strong execution to build and ship high quality features through weekly sprints and releases
• Maintain highly reliable services with an SLA.  Diagnose and fix production issues swiftly.

• At least 4+ years experience building backend systems operating reliably at scale
• Strong coding skills in Python producing well tested, clean, and bug free code. Ruby experience a bonus.
• Experience building reliable high throughput low latency APIs
• Experience with distributed and scalable systems architecture favoring data consistency, performance, and reliability and optimizing eng-to-end performance across the full stack
• Experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks and scalability issues
• Experience with on-call monitoring and ensuring good observability, alerting, and fast mitigation.
• Experience writing designing database tables and indexes optimized based on read/write pattern, efficient SQL queries, and reducing schema churn
• Strong execution and delivery skills, and developing collaboratively and iteratively with code reviews, and best practices in an agile environment

Bonus points

• You have built APIs and systems that service millions of end users.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering from a top school
• Prior startup experience