Backend Engineer (Remote)

LiveLike is on a mission to reform the live online engagement experience and empower the digital audience via interactive community-building tools. As we expand to Canada, we are looking to hire self-starters, innovators, and autonomous operators to kick-start our Canadian team and lead with an owner mindset.

We're looking for the newest member of our Infrastructure team. Someone who specializes in Django & AWS and brings the same fire to work every day that we do. If you think you've got the skills and are up for the challenge, then consider this your calling.

What You'Ll Be Doing

• Collaborating with product, design, and development teams to plan new features.
• Influencing the design of our web and mobile SDK's
• Building and deploying customer-facing HTTP API's
• Optimizing our API's along many axes: developer friendliness, cost-effectiveness, robustness, and reliability
• Automating tools and processes that our team can rely on for daily development, testing, and release management
• Releasing projects in 4 continents to meet the needs of our clients, the world's top leagues, and broadcasters
• Growing the platform to millions of concurrent users through solid architecture choices and design principles
• Monitoring always-on globally distributed systems armed a variety of tools and insights.

Our Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years experience as a Backend Engineer
• Expertise with Python 3, Django, and Django REST Framework
• Comfortable deploying applications on AWS and have a solid working knowledge of EC2 RDS and S3.
• Informed opinions on API design and library development as an author and a developer
• Driven to automate your processes and document your work
• Developed complex software systems at scale with production-quality deployment, monitoring and reliability
• Experienced with live or on-demand video streaming
• Familiar with cloud orchestration software like Terraform and Ansible
• Disciplined with your time and energy

What Would Be Cool

• We’re the kind of team that can banter one minute and crunch the next, and we’d love for you to be able to do the same.
• You’ve got a strong sense of personal drive and will move forward at full force when tasked to solve something tricky.
• In the same breath, you believe your team is your most valuable resource, and you won’t hesitate to collaborate with them.
• You take the initiative and don’t assume someone else will move things along, you pull in new work, and you follow up on work in progress.
• An unbridled passion for learning.
• You’re a techie at heart, and you want to talk to us about the latest stuff you saw on Product Hunt, Gamasutra, Medium, ESPN, etc.
• You’re not afraid of an open, candid, and respectful work environment

What We Offer

--Competitive Salary

--Employee Assist Programs

• An opportunity to work in a variety of domains
• Exposure to diverse clients and projects
• Be part of a rapidly expanding, dynamic, and committed company
• Work in a global and intellectually stimulating environment

LiveLike strives to be a diverse and inclusive company. We know that different voices, experiences, and points of view will only strengthen our work and culture. We welcome and encourage people from all walks of life, all genders, orientations, races, ethnicities, and religions, to apply!