High-Performance Backend Developer

7 days ago


Santa Clara, California, United States PayNearMe Full time

PayNearMe is a leading payment technology company that simplifies the end-to-end customer payment experience. We are seeking an experienced Senior Performance Engineer to join our team and help us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalability.

Salary

$185,000 - $215,000 per year (paid semi-monthly)

We offer a fast-paced and professional work culture, with a focus on delivering real results while remaining respectful, transparent, and flexible.

Job Description
  • Helping us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalability
  • Write and extend test-harness scripts in Javascript to load-test specific components in our platform
  • Use the load-tests to analyze current performance characteristics
  • Remove load from the primary database through caching, reader nodes, query optimizations and improved algorithms
  • Roll out changes in a controlled and reversible way
  • Help us re-architect existing components for horizontal scalability
  • Work with cloud-native infrastructure (we use AWS)
  • Working independently, but closely with a few others
  • If you have great leadership skills, this position could lead to a management position
Required Skills and Qualifications
  • Superb Ruby on Rails skills, with a minimum of 10 years of current Ruby on Rails experience
  • Skilled at coding in Javascript, used in our performance test harness
  • Experience and expertise building highly performant and high-throughput Ruby/Rails back-ends
  • Experience with Go is a plus, but not required
  • Familiarity with query optimization with an intuitive understanding of database characteristics
  • Experience with database sharing is a plus
  • Experience writing well instrumented code that can be easily monitored (we use Datadog)
  • Understand the impacts of locking, network latency, batching, caching and I/O on software performance
  • A proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situations
  • Ability to facilitate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls in a distributed team environment
  • Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
  • Experience serving as a Tech-Lead
Benefits
  • Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
  • Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
  • Paid parental bonding leave
  • Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
  • 401k plan
  • Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
  • Volunteer Time Off
  • 13 scheduled holidays
  • 2x / year in-person team meet-ups (2-3 days, company paid)


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