Locus engineers obliterate the boundaries of what is possible everyday. We are a part of the entire product lifecycle from idea generation to shipping. We strive to deliver scalable, realtime, distributed and highly fault tolerant systems.
Lead Software Engineer (Backend)
Who you are
- You are a very good programmer: You write clean and efficient code regardless of language used.
- You have a desire to work on hard problems.
- You are happy and able to work in and collaborate with members of a fast paced agile team.
- You are willing to learn and use whatever tool is needed to get the job done.
- You have the zeal to develop your skills and become better.
We are looking for brilliant backend engineers who are passionate about what we do and want to help us build our platform. You will create scalable and high throughput software architectures, have them reviewed by your peers(and vice versa), implement, deploy and maintain them.
Technology Stack
Our backend services are written in Scala based on the Finagle stack. Our preferred data stores are PostgreSQL and Redis for key-value storage. We are also currently experimenting with Golang and python for certain specific services but familiarity with these tools are not required.
Desired 4 years experience or Phd in Machine Learning, Computer science, applied mathmatics or similar feild.