Burner is empowering people to take control over their primary channel of communication – the phone number. As Platform Engineer, you will be a key member of a team building the next generation of mobile privacy tools. You will work closely with the mobile and product teams to architect new features and build out fast, scalable backend services.
Our team members are encouraged to embrace new technologies/frameworks and find the best tool for every problem. We are currently making use of Scala, functional programming, and TDD to develop new services.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who:
Possesses real industry experience building fast, reliable, fault tolerant distributed systems
Writes clean efficient code that is easy to maintain and a joy to work with
Writes lots of tests to ensure quality of the service at all stages of the development cycle
Cares about user experience and has opinions on how to ensure the best customer experience
Takes ownership of features from inception through production and metricscentric results
Responsibilities:
Build fast, scalable features on the server side to support the Burner mobile app
Work closely with the mobile engineers and product owners to move quickly on new projects
Maintain and improve existing infrastructure, and be willing to jump in when things break
