Senior Software Engineer, Ably

• A keen interest in, or experience with, distributed systems, performance analysis and/or large scale systems
• Experience working with or building messaging queues and/or pub/sub systems at scale
• Extensive experience programming using a high-level server-side language (preferably Node.js or Go)
• You have the ability to self-start and you embrace a growth mindset
• A pragmatic approach; the ability to quickly and successfully embrace change and adapt effectively in response
• Experience in dynamic, early stage startups where adaptability and resourcefulness are crucial
• A transparent and collaborative “build in the open” mindset

Desirable

• The Realtime team owns the core backend that underpins Ably’s entire edge messaging platform
• This is a unique opportunity to help us develop and improve this platform, solving hard distributed systems problems and working on planet-scale infrastructure
• You’ll be hands-on, working on the development of new functionality and initiatives to scale Ably’s core Realtime platform and improve performance
• Optimise Ably’s core platform infrastructure. You’ll help design, develop, deploy and optimise backend services with a focus on low latency, high availability and scalability
• Contribute to the delivery of key functionality. You’ll work on projects that help scale and evolve our platform, delivering new features, improving performance and handling bug fixes and maintenance
• Solve hard distributed systems problems. You’ll collaborate with a talented team of engineers to solve interesting and challenging problems
• Be driven by “Developer First” principles. You’ll collaborate closely with other engineers to explore and discover effective solutions that address most important problems developers face
• Celebrate delivering real customer value. You’ll push hard to see your work get into customers’ hands without delay because you are hungry to see the impact it will have on their projects