Backend Engineer - Platform

August 20

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Virtual Reality • Workforce Development • Software Development • Job Training • Education

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Description

• As a Platform Backend Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the backend infrastructure and services used by our VR training simulations. • You will work closely with multiple teams to define data contracts and endpoints, capture events, and perform analytics to optimize the learning experience for our trainees. • Additionally, you will collaborate with product managers, VR developers and other stakeholders to implement services that support new training simulation features. • Your expertise in microservices architecture, data contracts, and analytics will be crucial in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our backend platform services. • Design and develop high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services for our VR platform, utilizing best practices in software development and architectural design. • Collaborate with the VR team to define data contracts and events schema that will be used for simulation scoring and measurement of a trainee's learning experience. • Work with the product manager to define and implement platform service features that align with business requirements and user needs. • Optimize and support the existing platform pipeline used for capturing events from production released simulations. • Ensure code quality, security, and performance of the backend platform services, through code reviews, testing, and optimization techniques. • Troubleshoot and resolve backend issues, including performance bottlenecks, data integrity, and system failures, in a timely manner, working closely with relevant teams and stakeholders. • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to junior engineers, promoting best practices, coding standards, and continuous improvement in backend engineering.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related coursework • 2 to 4 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining large-scale backend systems and services • Experience with cloud infrastructure services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure • Strong background in designing and building high-throughput low-latency distributed systems • Proven experience developing RESTful APIs • Experience with using Python as a server-side language • Knowledge of relational database technologies, such as PostgreSQL • Proficiency in using AWS services such as Fargate, Lambda, S3, Kinesis, SQS and RDS • Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively • Ability to work in an agile environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams. • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.