Backend Engineer, Transfr
Platform
$130-150k
More information about location
VR workplace training
Open for applications
VR workplace training
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$130-150k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To train the future of every industry and open up new opportunities for people across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related coursework
- 2 to 4 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend systems and services
- Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong background in designing and building high-throughput low-latency distributed systems
- Proven experience developing RESTful APIs
- Experience with using Python as a server-side language
- Knowledge of relational database technologies, such as PostgreSQL
- Proficiency in using AWS services such as Fargate, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SQS and RDS
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively
- Ability to work in an agile environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
What the job involves
- As a Platform Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the backend infrastructure and services used by our VR training simulations.
- You will work closely with multiple teams to define data contracts and endpoints, capture events, and perform analytics to optimize the learning experience for our trainees.
- Additionally, you will collaborate with product managers, VR developers and other stakeholders to implement services that support new training simulation features.
- Your expertise in microservices architecture, data contracts, and analytics will be crucial in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our backend platform services
- Design and develop high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services for our VR platform, utilizing best practices in software development and architectural design
- Collaborate with the VR team to define data contracts and events schema that will be used for simulation scoring and measurement of a trainee's learning experience
- Work with the product manager to define and implement platform service features that align with business requirements and user needs
- Optimize and support the existing platform pipeline used for capturing events from production released simulations. This pipeline is used for mining events and calculating scores for a trainees' VR experiences
- Ensure code quality, security, and performance of the backend platform services, through code reviews, testing, and optimization techniques
- Troubleshoot and resolve backend issues, including performance bottlenecks, data integrity, and system failures, in a timely manner, working closely with relevant teams and stakeholders
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, promoting best practices, coding standards, and continuous improvement in backend engineering
Our take
In today's labor market, around 6 million Americans are out of work. Working populations suffer from wage and qualification inequalities, particularly among women, low-income families, and people of colour. Transfr was created to bridge the gap between work-based learning and classroom instruction so students can better develop their careers.
It is an immersive learning startup using virtual reality to simulate on-the-job training. Transfr leverages virtual reality to create simulations of manufacturing-plant shop floors or warehouses for training purposes. Transfr's solution has become even more relevant in recent years as an ongoing labour shortage has meant that employees in high-growth industries have to find new ways of reaching and rapidly upskilling promising new talent.
Because of this, virtual reality technologies are growing in popularity among employers and training providers. One of the biggest challenges for Transfr’s technology is the production costs of the VR simulations. However, Transfr is using the significant funding it has raised to reduce its production costs while simultaenously finetuning the quality and expanding the range of its simulations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Sep 2023
$40m
SERIES C
Jun 2022
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $88.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible Schedule
- Generous parental leave
- 401(K)
- Health, Dental & Vision
- Promote From Within
- Company Outings
- Company Equity
- Paid Sick Days
Company values
- Radical Responsibility: be accountable to yourself and others
- Creativity: be curious and innovative
- Win-Win Mindset: be generous and share success
- Teamwork: be collaborative and caring
- Personal Growth: be the best version of yourself
- Empathy: share and understand others’ perspectives
Company HQ
Yorkville, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Founding Board Member of nycTIES. Previously a Senior Operations Analyst at Neuberger Berman. Achieved an MBA from Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. Founded LearnBop.
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