Senior Backend Engineer

Leanplum, a leading engagement platform, helps forward-looking brands like Mobility Ware, Via and Tesco meet the real-time needs of their customers. By transforming data into an understanding of users' needs and wants, our platform delivers experiences that are timely, tested, and relevant — building customer loyalty that fuels business growth. 

Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2012, Leanplum has colleagues across North America, Europe, and Asia, and has received more than $100 million in funding from leading Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Leanplum has also been recognized as Fortune's Best Companies to Work For and Entrepreneur's Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America. Download the media kit and learn more at www.leanplum.com. 

As a Senior Engineer, you are a technical leader in your team. You can independently scope technical solutions and drive a project from beginning to end. You build distributed, high volume systems and are able to exhibit good anticipation skills and design skills. Services and features you work on that can easily be modified and expanded to adapt to new usage patterns and customer needs. You are also expected to be collaborative and have good communication skills. You work well with members in the pod and outside, are able to have productive discussions with a wide audience, and are a trusted voice of the pod. You improve the team and the company. You improve the quality of the code in your pod, contribute to finding and solving problems in your team and supporting broader initiatives. You are a good mentor and can mentor other junior team members to be successful teammates, both technically and culturally.

Here at Leanplum, we operate at a very high scale. As of today, we process hundreds of millions of messages daily and handle tens of thousands of requests per second. Our production clusters have tens of thousand of cores and petabytes of storage. The technology behind all this is a mix of cloud-native and open source technologies over the Google Cloud Platform. We are using many of the popular technologies in the distributed systems world today such as Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, etc. And we never stop innovating and add more and more things to the stack to meet the rapidly growing needs of our customers.

Leanplum is an equal employment opportunity employer for all applicants and employees.  We do not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including  pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. When necessary, we also make reasonable accommodations for disabled employees and for pregnant employees who request an accommodation, with the advice of their health care providers, for pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions.