As a Lead Backend Engineer, you will play an instrumental role in advancing the services and systems comprising the DaVinci platform. Your technical expertise and leadership skills will be leveraged to drive the development and deployment of high quality, scalable solutions. The fast pace of research and product releases in this field means that there is always something new and exciting to work on, which keeps the role engaging and challenging. By combining digital marketing and AI, you have the potential to make a significant impact on the way businesses interact with their customers. 

This role will be reporting to the Manager of the DaVinci Services team.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to empathetically understand and define requirements for complex systems, and develop complex projects from conception into rigorous technical specifications with a clear path to production.
• Minimize risk across platform/system deployments, features, and processes.
• Build systems that deliver measurable and tangible business value.
• Develop solutions that are necessary for the current requirements, while still considering potential future needs and opportunities.
• Conduct design reviews and hold the team to technical and operational rigor.
• Serve as a thought leader, providing technical guidance and mentorship to junior developers and contributing to the overall technical excellence of the organization.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years software engineering experience
• Experience with working on with a large suite of interconnected services
• Experience architecting, building, and maintaining production distributed systems at scale
• Exemplary software engineering skills (design, unit testing, git, code review, CI/CD)
• Strong proficiency with Python
• Experience with large-scale data processing frameworks (we use SQL, PySpark, Clickhouse)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms (we use Google Cloud Platform (GCP))
• Experience with modern cloud technologies (we use Kubernetes, Kafka, etc)
• Experience implementing performant microservices (we use gRPC and Protobuf)
• Experience with functional programming (we use Elixir)
• Proficient in database management, including designing database schema, crafting efficient queries, performing basic DBA tasks, and knowledgeable regarding common databases relevant to Python development
• Strong technical leadership skills