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Senior Backend Engineer - Remote


At Cameo, we make impossible connections possible. Our platform allows fans to get personalized messages from their favorite athletes, actors, influencers and more. Not gonna lie, it’s pretty magical. And now we’re looking for passionate, hardworking humans to help take Cameo to the next level.

? Our #Fameo means everything to us. Join a stellar team of smart, curious and driven individuals, and experience a rocketship from its earliest days.

? Best in class. We’ve been named one of LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups to Work For, voted one of America’s Best Startup Employers by Forbes and the #1 Most Innovative Social Media Company by Fast Company.

? Work from almost anywhere. We’re a global fully distributed company.

?Get all good stuff. Competitive salaries, Equity, Health insurance, 401(K), and opportunities to connect with Talent on Cameo (looking @ you, Snoop Dogg).

Come to work every day knowing your efforts will have a material impact, shaping the direction of the next great tech company!


Engineering Culture and Values:

Check out our Key Values [1] profile

What you’ll be doing

  • Design, build and improve APIs, services, and systems across Cameo’s engineering teams
  • Help scale our backend architecture and migrate to a service-oriented future
  • Ensure standards for engineering excellence, scalability, reliability, and reusability
  • Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack
  • Mentor junior engineers and build new engineering leaders for the organization


What you bring to the table:

  • 5+ years experience building scalable, resilient backend systems
  • Experience working on, and deploying, large scale systems in Javascript (NodeJS), Typescript, Go, Java or other similar languages
  • Proficiency in concepts related to data modeling, data storage (SQL, NoSQL), data streaming (Kafka, Kinesis), and caching (Redis)
  • Enjoy, and have experience building, efficient, typesafe and documented APIs (gRPC, Thrift, GraphQL, Swagger, JSON:API)
  • Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
  • You are able to take complex product goals and efficiently deliver working software in logically consumable pieces and on schedule
  • Possess excellent practical judgement. You should know how to effectively allocate your time when solving hard problems
  • You take pride in your work
  • You have a strong product sense
  • You enjoy working with fun people
  • You are a doer who is comfortable with ambiguity
  • You love javascript, and building + scaling web applications

Bonus points if you have experience or are eager to learn about:

  • AWS ecosystem- Redshift, SQS, Kinesis, API Gateway, and Lambda
  • Test- or Behavior-Driven Development (TDD, BDD) practices
  • Event-driven architecture
  • Scaling microservices
  • Information security standards & methodologies
  • Container (Docker) and container orchestration experience (Mesos, Kubernetes)
  • Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible)

Cameo is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for every person who walks through our doors. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Cameo celebrates and embraces diversity.


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