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Senior Software Engineer – Backend
| Company | Klaviyo |
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| Location | Boston, MA, USA |
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| Salary | $152000 – $228000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Highly skilled in using at least one modern programming language
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline
- Significant experience with full stack application development
- Able to communicate well
- Able to work with others on a team
- Able to learn continuously and adapt to a high growth environment
- Able to stick with and solve difficult problems
Responsibilities
- Designing, building, and maintaining systems to support core product areas in Klaviyo
- Working with a cross functional team to help refine feature specifications
- Writing technical design documents
- Creating system infrastructure
- Writing high quality code
- Operating large scale systems in production
- Reviewing other engineer’s designs and code
- Providing technical mentorship to other engineers on the team and in the broader engineering organization
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with distributed systems
- Experience performance tuning and scaling systems
- Experience with OLTP and OLAP databases
- Experience with high volume data processing and storage systems
- Experience using Linux operating systems
