Backend Engineer (Engineer #5)

Skills: Rust, Django, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS

You'll be our fifth engineering hire. You'll have full ownership over major product features, have a major role in creating the culture of our engineering team and will be working closely with the founders.

What it will be like

• You’ll work hard, work with the best and continuously raise the bar. We put immense effort into selecting the most talented & ambitious engineers.
• Your work will have an actual impact on our customers. You get to build the foundations of the company and product.
• No bureaucracy - You’ll own and drive the product from start to finish.
• Massive growth opportunities. And not just on the technical side. Anything you want to learn about the business we’ll teach you.
• Tackle interesting technical challenges like operating a large Kubernetes cluster with several thousand CPUs, recording Zoom calls at scale, analyzing dynamic media at near-real time performance.

Responsibilities

• Operate, scale and extend our extensive video processing infrastructure
• Build the core product, from APIs, to real-time video processing pipelines
• Be independent and own major features through development and deployment. You'll be responsible for running your code in production.
• Work directly with customers to solve their problems. All team members participate in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products.
• Hold yourself and others to a high standard when working on production systems.

Your Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience
• Deep customer empathy, including the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions
• Strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains

Bonus Points

• Previously founded a startup. Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup.
• Experience with media encoding and delivery at scale.
• Devops or infrastructure experience.

Technology

• API Frontend: Django
• Real-time Video Processing: Rust
• Database: Postgres
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes running on AWS EKS. All infrastructure managed through Terraform.

Our company culture

(Why you may or may not be excited about joining us)

Set audacious goals and be relentless in achieving them

• Each of us has earned our place in the team. We have been hired at Recall because we can deliver at a quality and pace that is exceptional by most company’s standards. Every week, when we plan our work, we ask ourselves “what is the best result I could deliver for the company this week?” and then we put in the hours to make it happen.

Endlessly resourceful when solving product issues

• We operate in a challenging domain, and our customers rely on us to figure out the hard stuff so they don’t have to. Hence we are faced with a continuous stream of hard-to-debug, irreproducible issues. We accept that the easy thing often will not pan out and that many attempts may be necessary to get at the heart of a problem or ship a feature.

Full stack ownership

• Every engineer at Recall plays the role of PM and developer for every feature they work on. This means along with writing code for the features you're working on you'll be talking to customers to figure out what should be built, making high quality product decisions independently, handling deployment and operations, collecting bug reports, and checking in with users on a regular basis.

Build solutions pragmatically and efficiently

• We want to spend nearly all of our energy on where we can deliver unique value - building new stuff that’s never been done before. We are a small & talented team, hence our time is precious. We ignore dogma, avoid philosophical debates, put aside personal preferences, and laser our focus on time-efficient, evidence-based solutions to problems.