What you’ll do

• Architect, develop, and maintain workflow engine to improve product performance and scalability
• Build distributed systems and fine-tune performance at-scale
• Work closely with product to design and implement new product features
• Build and monitor dashboards to track uptime, error rates, processing rates, and other SLOs (service level objectives)
• Understand customer use cases and help make key product/architecture decisions
• Help lead the growth of our engineering team and shape Paragon’s culture

You should have

• 4+ years experience in backend engineering
• 3+ years experience with JavaScript, Go, Java, or Node.js
• Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture at production scale (100M+ requests/mo)
• Experience working with SQL databases (e.g. Postgres) and caches (e.g. Redis) at scale
• Confidence working in a high-autonomy, fast-paced environment where you’ll be responsible for decisions that influence the direction of the company

Bonus points if you have

• Experience with React and TypeScript
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Etcd, lambdas, and tools common in distributed systems
• Experience with DevOps (Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform)