Software Engineer: Back-End

As a back-end engineer at RedCircle, you'll be working on RedCircle's high-scale podcast platform responsible for the delivery of petabytes of content each month. Our system manages instant high-cardinality analytics, the construction of dynamic audio in real-time. complex business logic for payments, and much more. We write high-performance code in Go, operate and deploy our services in AWS (SQS, Dynamo, EC2, etc), and use technologies like ElasticSearch, Prometheus, and Spark to manage and monitor our podcast data and production environment.

We're a small team dedicated to delivering revenue for audio creators. We are looking for engineers that want to take on responsibility, learn new techniques and technologies, and grow with the business. If you're looking for challenging technical work with real positive impact, this is the job for you.

The team is led by the company's CEO (an engineer by training), and day-to-day you'll be collaborating with other engineers & business stakeholders.

A perfect candidate…

Has at least 1 year of experience out of school / bootcamp / internships on back end systems. A few is preferred.

Knows Go or is willing to learn. Python and/or JS knowledge is a plus.

Is comfortable / experienced with typical dev tools in a *nix environment (e.g. familiarity with the command line, git, etc).

Works collaboratively and loves designing solutions with the team.

Loves to learn, whether they've been in the industry for 1 year or 15.

Gets jazzed about owning projects from end-to-end. We're a small team, so you'll be responsible for as much as you want to take on.

Works in Boston or is willing to relocate. We work in a hybrid environment, with at least a few days a week in the office.