SeniorFull TimeEN
We are seeking a skilled software engineer with deep expertise in Common Lisp and a passion for building robust, high-quality systems. This role involves owning complex components and features, as well as contributing to key architectural decisions.
You will join the Platform Core team, responsible for building and maintaining the foundation that supports all product innovation, enabling teams to scale faster and deliver reliable customer experiences.
Proactiveness, initiative and strong decision-making are essential for this role.
You will:
Lead technical design and architecture for features and services
Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle
Collaborate with Support to troubleshoot issues and deliver timely fixes
Work with Operations to drive performance improvements
Identify technical gaps and drive effective solutions
Maintain high quality by promoting clear documentation, strong code quality, and architectural enhancements.
Ensure system reliability, including error handling, observability, and scalability.
Must-haves:
Good Common Lisp understanding
Experience in microservices, distributed systems, and building high-performance job scheduling systems.
Used to working with sbcl, emacs, slime
Experience developing on Linux systems
General SQL understanding
Good understanding of TCP/IP, HTTP, RESTful APIs, and XML
Strong initiative and a proactive mindset, with a willingness to share knowledge, and support a collaborative environment.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team
Nice-to-haves:
Working knowledge of git and GNU Make
Familiarity with C++
Our platform provides customers with an immutable, historical archive of their data in systems such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Entra ID, Dynamics 365, and Zendesk.
We protect our customers against everything, ranging from ransomware to simple accidents.
The majority of our back-end components are written in clean, modern C++ using mainly purpose-built components. Components responsible for business processes and data mining are built using Common Lisp. Everything runs on Linux.
We pride ourselves on backing up billions of objects over foreign APIs using imperfect networks on systems with finite memory and making it all happen in a performant, reliable, and predictable way.
As we collaborate across locations, English is our primary language. Please submit your CV in English to support the review process.
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