Senior Backend Engineer

We’re a highly skilled team of software engineers who are building an awesome product and moving fast. We value people who take initiatives, and empower everyone at Klue to make a real change in the product or processes.

We are looking for Backend Engineers to work with our team to deliver high quality products in the most efficient way.

FAQ

Q:
Klue who?

A: We’re Klue and from a technical perspective, Klue’s mission is to descale huge amounts of data to the human level, so people can process it and make use of it. Klue is that trusted intermediary, right now it’s proven for sales enablement, but tomorrow it’s all teams enablement.

Q:
What level of experience are we looking for?

A:
Right now we are looking for senior level experienced Back-End Engineers.

Q:
What is our development team working on?

A: As part of our backend team, we are concerned with data storage and retrieval and the infrastructure to enable that. Here’s what our development team is working on and the opportunity for motivated Software Engineers to dig into, alongside us:

- Big Data - lots of data

- Ingesting thousands of news articles, web pages, marketing and sales data points per day. The challenge is indexing them for a long period of time and making them searchable and ready for different analysis.

- Expanding our Rails REST API and offering public APIs to enable integrations.

- Architect infrastructure for a scalable, resilient and robust service. We are migrating from a monolith architecture to K8S-hosted microservices.

Q:
What is our current tech stack?

A:
Python (Flask), Ruby (Rails), Postgre

SQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, GCP, AWS, Tensorflow, Keras, Docker, Kubernetes.

We code review all changes, continuously integrate, pay down technical debt, and aim for high automated test coverage. We love microservices and, while we mostly use Python, Ruby, Google Cloud Platform, Linux, JavaScript, and React, new services can be built using whatever tools make sense to get the job done and support our game-changing innovation.

Q:
Are you HYBRID FRIENDLY ?

A:
YES!
Hybrid. Best of both worlds (remote & in-office)

Our main Canadian hubs are in Vancouver and Toronto, and most of our teams are located in EST and PST.

You and your team will be in office at least 2 days per week.

• Expertise in at least one of the general programming languages like Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java script, or similar.
• Expertise in relational databases such as Postgre
  
  SQL or MySQL
• Experience in designing REST APIs
• Experience using No
  
  SQL databases such as Elasticsearch or Mongo
  
  DB is a plus
• Experience using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP is a plus
• Bonus if you have Data Engineering interest and experience; ETL Pipelines, Snowplow, Snowflake, Big Query Redshift, Airflow, or equivalent.

• The type of work. Challenging, stimulating and meaningful work. New and relevant tech stack. We know engineers/developers especially want to work on hard technical and innovative problems.
• The inspiration from skilled and proven leaders.
• Entrepreneurial fingerprints on what will be a future billion dollar company anchored in Canada.
• Culture, team, and the work environment.
• High degree of autonomy and accountability.
• High degrees of transparency and high quality communication.

• Builders
• Intellectually Curious
• Ambitious
• Objective Oriented
• Check us out !

• Benefits
  . We currently have extended health benefits starting on your 1st day.
• Time off. Take what you need. We want the team to prioritize wellness and avoid burnout. Vacation usually falls into 3 categories: recharging, life-event, & keeping a work-life balance. Just ensure the required work gets done and clear it with your team in advance. You need to take at least two weeks off every year. The average Klue team member takes 2-4 weeks of PTO per year.