Senior Backend Software Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Help shape the future of entertainment with Lomotif. Today, close to 15 million users are creating memes, selfie music videos and video edits for social sharing using the Lomotif app. The app is especially popular amongst Gen Z users and has seen extraordinary organic growth. But we believe this is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg!

With our recent Series A funding, we’re expanding quickly to meet the demands of our accelerating growth and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help bring us to even greater heights!

Job Description

 

  • Collaborate with the product team and other developers to deliver solutions fast
  • Maintain uptime of a high traffic production environment
  • Design, create, document and maintain APIs
  • Cover your code with tests
  • Improve the existing codebase with better architectural solutions
  • To handle the fast growing traffic by evolving the infrastructure to achieve higher scalability and availability

 

Qualifications

 

  • To have at least 5-7 years of experience with server-side web frameworks
  • Able to make sound decisions independently, and always curious. 
  • To be familiar with the services available from cloud service providers
  • To be excited to deal with scaling backend solutions (we really have a lot of users)
  • Good devops skills (provision and maintain services)
  • To be familiar with logging and monitoring technologies
  • Must be self-driven, good team player with initiative to pick up and share new technologies
  • Good written and verbal communication skills in English

Advantageous to have:

  • Video space related knowledge and technologies (i/b/p frames, h264, rtmp, ffmpeg)
  • Worked with developing social media features (notification and news feed, privacy)
  • Experience with managing and provisioning via infrastructure as code

Additional Information

As part of the Lomotif team, you'll enjoy:

  • Powering an app that serves millions of daily active users (how often will you find this in a startup?)
  • Mentorship with early members who are dedicated to your personal and career growth
  • The opportunity to lead and work with a team of like-minded individuals
  • Flexible working hours
  • A hip and fun work environment located in Singapore's most tightly-packed entrepreneurial ecosystem, BLOCK71
  • Competitive benefits package