Senior Backend Engineer

Description:

Mozilla Social’s vision is to develop an integrated platform that empowers users through seamless communication, content discovery, curation, and sharing capabilities, enabling them to stay up-to-date, explore new perspectives, and engage within a safe and enriching experience.

For 25 years, Mozilla has been committed to building an internet that is a global public resource, based on principles that safeguard privacy, accessibility, and transparency. As we venture into the social internet landscape, we are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer who is eager to address exciting challenges and craft the future of social media in favor of users rather than shareholders. With ample opportunities for end-to-end ownership, you will have a tremendous impact on people across various domains, platforms, and geographies.

What You’ll Do

• Build our content platform engaging millions of users a day across Firefox, mobile apps, and web surfaces.
• Develop reusable patterns and practices for deploying systems at scale on cloud platforms.
• Deliver new features to our users by developing and enhancing our REST APIs.
• Deploy machine learning models into production systems.
• Create and support strategies for empowering human in the loop recommendation solutions.
• Collaborate with peers, pair program, code review, and collaborate with the greater organization.
• Support incidents and periodic on-call rotation.

What You Bring…

• At least 4 years of professional experience in software engineering
• Experience with typescript/javascript, python, and/or rust.
• Experience building platforms with object oriented conventions.
• Experience with REST API design and development
• Experience with service oriented architecture and distributed systems
• Experience deploying services in cloud environments such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.
• Strong communication skills and an ability to approach problems in a structured way and distill complex issues into actionable insights.