Senior Backend Engineer, Growth & Acquisition

Huck Adventures

$100K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5 years of experience with distributed systems in production
  • Skilled in software engineering with strong analytical abilities
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Self-motivated to deliver high-quality solutions
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Recognized by peers for kindness and excellence in work

Responsibilities

  • Build business logic for web and mobile applications
  • Develop Java-based microservices
  • Collaborate with UI partners for flexible user flows
  • Conduct A/B tests for user acquisition and retention
  • Lead initiatives across Data Science, Design, and Engineering

Benefits

  • Innovative work environment with a focus on experimentation
  • Opportunity to drive real business impact
  • Collaboration with diverse teams and professionals
  • Encouragement for self-motivation and independent problem-solving
Full Job Description
As a backend engineer on this team, you will build the business logic and protocols that allow our UI partners to build lightweight and flexible flows for the web, and mobile devices. We like to experiment constantly, which means we are continually A/B testing our user acquisition and retention through experiments in the sign-up and on-boarding funnels. You will develop Java-based microservices and work with many services and underlying technologies core to our product.

Does this sound like something you'd like to do? Awesome, let's talk about specifics.

Job Description

What do we need from you?
  • You have around 5 years of experience crafting robust, high-scale, distributed systems in production environments
  • You love driving real business impact by applying your software engineering and analytical skills
  • You are passionate about leading initiatives and collaborating across Data Science, Design, Engineering and Product teams
  • You are highly motivated to deliver high quality solutions quickly and without mentorship
  • You can communicate effectively in written or verbal form
  • Your co-workers think of you as someone who is kind and does excellent work


Qualifications

What are some nice to haves?
  • You have optimized a consumer facing product through A/B tests
  • You have worked in Java or other JVM languages, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kafka, Hive or AWS
  • You are proficient with RESTful API design and implementation
  • You understand what being on-call means and can resolve production outages independently
  • You have experience working in the Growth domain and especially in EMEA or LATAM
  • You have a Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field


Additional Information

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