Senior Backend Engineer, Wattpad

• 5+ years of experience in a prior software development role
• You are skilled in Go
• You know PHP
• You have experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider like Azure or GCP)
• You have experience with 3rd party integrations
• You enjoy building and maintaining complex back-end systems that operate 24/7 at high scale
• 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)
• You are comfortable in both static and dynamic languages and don’t mind switching between them
• You love learning and applying your knowledge in novel ways
• Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (with “just enough” documentation)

Desirable

• On the Payment and Ads Platforms team, you’ll build and maintain scalable, extensible, secure and observable payment services that power our paywalls, subscription offerings and virtual coin system.
• In the Ads domain, you’ll be working to consolidate ads logic as a backend platform that provides a single source of truth to our AN, iOS and web clients. The code you work on will have a direct impact on Wattpad’s users and bottom line.
• As part of the team, you’ll share ownership of our success and the direction of payment services that support our 35M+ monthly engaged users
• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large scale distributed system serving millions of people per day
• Building new product features in Go and PHP
• Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems
• Configuring and maintaining the infrastructure that runs those systems
• Writing unit and service tests for all your code
• Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues

• Wattpad is conducting all interviews in a distributed manner using applicable third party software where needed and using visual interface tools such as Google Hangouts and Zoom