Senior Backend Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: (Salary not provided in the description)

Wordly is a fast-growing global team seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. In this role, you'll contribute to architecting and implementing software solutions across Wordly’s technology stack, supporting existing services and developing new features for our end-users’ real-time translation needs. You may work as an individual contributor or lead a small engineering team, responsible for planning and executing technical work, and guiding engineering processes to ensure high-quality software delivery.

Requirements

• Experience: 4+ years of hands-on experience in architecting, implementing, and delivering software engineering solutions from set product requirements.
• Leadership: 2+ years of experience in leading software development work in some capacity.
• Frameworks: Experience working with dependency injection frameworks such as Micronaut, Spring Boot, etc.
• Version Control: Experience using the Git version control system.
• Programming Languages: A deep understanding of the Java and/or Kotlin programming languages.
• Remote Work: Comfortable working with a fully remote team.
• Self-Motivation: Self-motivated and able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Solution Development: Be hands-on in architecting and implementing software solutions from a given set of requirements, either as an individual contributor or as a technical lead.
• Technical Planning: Create technical work plans and execute on those plans to meet individual business objectives.
• Maintenance: Assist in maintaining existing backend services.
• Guidance: Have a significant voice in guiding Wordly’s engineering processes.

Desired Qualifications

• Microservices: Familiarity with microservice architectures.
• Messaging/Streaming: Experience with distributed messaging brokers and/or event streaming platforms such as RabbitMQ, ZeroMQ, Kafka, etc.
• NoSQL Databases: Experience with distributed NoSQL databases such as Mongo, Cassandra, etc.
• Caching: Experience with distributed caches such as Redis, Valkey, etc.
• CI/CD: Experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, GitLab, TravisCI, etc.
• Audio Streams: Manipulating real-time audio streams.
• Node.js: Developing Node.js applications.
• Education: B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent from an accredited institution.

Company Information

• Company: Wordly
• Location: Los Altos, California
• Description: Wordly is an exciting tech startup providing high-quality, real-time translation services in 50+ languages to anyone, anywhere. They cater to numerous customers around the world.