Wattpad] Platform Engineer

Wattpad] Platform Engineer

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a prior software development role
• You are skilled in Go
• You know PHP or are willing to work with it
• You have experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider like Azure or GCP)
• You enjoy building and maintaining complex back-end systems that operate 24/7 at high scale
• You write clean, readable code that communicates its intents and methods clearly to future engineers (but you can also deal with code that isn’t and doesn’t)
• You are comfortable in both static and dynamic languages and don’t mind switching between them
• You love learning and applying your knowledge in novel ways
• Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (with “just enough” documentation)

Responsibilities

• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large scale distributed system serving millions of people per day
• Building new product features in Go and PHP
• Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems
• Configuring and maintaining the infrastructure that runs those systems
• Writing unit and service tests for all your code
• Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues

Preferred Qualifications

• You have integration experience with 3rd party payment systems like Stripe, Square or equivalent services
• You’ve worked with Ads Platform tools or APIs like Kevel or Google Adsense for Platform (AFP)
• You have a knowledge of Docker
• You’ve used container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or ECS
• You have exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform & Ansible