[Wattpad] Backend Engineer

What you'll be doing:

• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large-scale distributed system serving millions of people per day
• Building new features, tools and services in PHP and Go.
• Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems.
• Writing tests for all your work.
• Defining best practices and providing mentorship and support to other engineers.
• Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues.
• Advocating for the adoption of best practices, systems and tools across the engineering org.  

What we're looking for:

• 3+ years of experience in a prior SaaS engineering role
• You’ve worked with cloud platforms as a service (AWS, GCP, etc.) for at least 3 years 
• You are skilled in Go or PHP 
• You know how to use Docker
• You’re an excellent communicator
• You love learning and applying your knowledge in novel ways
• You enjoy working with a team but have no problem working independently
• You write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers (but you can also deal with code that isn’t and doesn’t)
• Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (and has “just the right” amount of documentation)

Bonus points for:

• You have worked with AWS 
• You have experience with monitoring distributed systems at scale
• You have exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform & Ansible
• You have a deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes or ECS
• You have worked with REST APIs and/or gRPC
• You have worked with Kafka 
• You have worked with CI systems such as TravisCI
• You have or are currently mentoring other engineers

What we offer:

• Career development; we believe in mentorship and investing in your learning, supporting you to achieve your goals
• Health benefits, including vision and dental!
• RRSP Contributions (Canada), 401K Contributions (USA)
• Generous vacation and Parental Leave Top-up
• Corporate discount for gym memberships for you and your family
• Winter break shutdown and a whole lot more!