Backend Engineering Lead

7 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Dorian Full time
Job Description

Dorian is a cutting-edge platform that empowers creators to transform comics into engaging social games, enabling millions of unpaid creators to monetize their content in a game format.

Summary of Position

  • The Cloud Infrastructure Architect and Backend Engineering Lead will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, databases, and backend code for our mobile app and authoring tools.
  • We are seeking a highly motivated, agile, and adaptable individual who can multitask efficiently, be proactive, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect, build, deploy, and maintain server-side systems and supporting tools to ensure high availability and performance.
  • Design and manage databases to ensure optimal performance, scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency, leveraging expertise in MySQL database management.
  • Set up and maintain monitoring and logging systems to ensure high availability and performance, with a focus on cloud cost optimization.
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate and streamline management processes, ensuring data backup and recovery plans are in place and regularly tested.
  • Manage cloud costs and optimize resource usage to maintain cost-efficiency, analyzing and troubleshooting systems to fix issues or make improvements.
  • Deliver high-quality code that is self-tested and optimized for performance and scalability, collaborating with team members on product design and realizing the company's vision.
  • Prototyping to evaluate ideas and ensure technical feasibility of feature designs, mentoring other engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Conduct code reviews to maintain high code quality and standards, ensuring adherence to basic security best practices in a cloud environment.

Requirements

  • Backend Development: 10+ years of cloud/data/backend/devOps engineering experience.
  • AWS expert: 5+ years of experience with AWS products, including EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, & CloudFront.
  • MySQL database management: 5+ years of experience in architecting and optimizing MySQL databases for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
  • Node frameworks: 5+ years of experience using backend Node-based frameworks such as Express or Koa.
  • TypeScript: 5+ years of experience writing TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Kubernetes Experience: 4+ years of experience working with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
  • Redis Experience: 3+ years of experience with Redis, including caching, message brokering, and session management.
  • Experience with building and scaling B2C platforms.
  • Knowledge of basic security best practices in a cloud environment.
  • Experience developing asynchronous code.
  • Ability to work with remote instances: SSH, remote debugging, logs.
  • Strong git skills.
  • Great communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Game development experience.
  • Experience or a strong interest in AI (machine learning).
  • Experience or an interest in Learning Management Systems (LMS).

Perks

  • Fast growth and learning opportunity - we ship, learn, and iterate fast.
  • Opportunity to be a part of a venture-funded ambitious team that builds a product that changes lives.
  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • Flexible location (fully remote).

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