Software Engineer - Backend

Details

Are you prepared to join the X team and help build the ultimate real-time information-sharing app, revolutionizing how people connect? At X, we’re on a mission to become the trusted global digital public square, committed to protecting freedom of speech and building the future unlimited interactivity. Our goal is to empower every user to freely create and share ideas, fostering open public discourse without barriers. Join us in shaping this thrilling journey where your contribution will be invaluable to our success!

Responsibilities

• Work in a fast paced, collaborative environment where ideas are discussed and challenged openly
• Deliver new features and improve relevance of our products
• Identify major system bottlenecks, or flaws in business logic, and proactively address them.
• Take ownership over product problems, be able to come up with your own solutions that you love, and prove through data that it is impactful at scale.
• Work across the stack to solve problems, there is no reliance on another engineer or team to get something done for you.

Requirements

• 2+ years of industry experience working with large scale, high throughput distributed systems and data pipelines
• Proficient in Scala/Java/Python or similar languages; an expert in a majority of language constructs and able to apply them fluently to solve complex problems
• Track record of building and shipping user-facing products and features
• Experience with recommender systems and machine learning
• Ability to design and build multi-tier backend systems with storage, caching, and application layers
• Understanding of failure modes, performance optimization, and scaling for high-throughput, highly-available, low latency systems

Benefits

• Competitive salary of $127,000 USD - $297,000 USD + Equity
• Opportunity to work in a mission-driven company focused on open discourse and freedom of speech.