Principal Backend Engineer I

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As a Principal Backend Engineer I at Mistplay, you will play a critical role in defining the technical architecture to be able to support the continued growth of the business. You will be working with a diverse and talented team of software engineers, product managers and designers to understand and implement product and engineering driven initiatives.

What you’ll do at Misplay

• Act as the technical subject matter expert to ensure technical capabilities align with our Product team to ensure technical initiatives are well align with our Product roadmap;

• Determining and developing pragmatic and achievable refactoring initiatives. Ensure that our BE engineering members are on the same way;

• Developing and designing highly scalable features and systems.

• Identifying possible risks and dependencies in our projects and mitigating them;

• Breaking down complex technical epics into executable engineering tasks;

• Working with our DevOps team to create an efficient CI/CD pipeline to ensure we can push code to production reliably, confidently;

• Leading code reviews, ensuring that we are growing our codebase in a performant, scalable, maintainable way;

• Run frequent knowledge transfer, lunch & learn sessions with our engineering members to set best practices, and foster a healthy engineering culture.

What you’ll bring to Mistplay

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent

• 10+ years experience working in an engineering driven product organization, at least 2 of which leading complex technical initiatives

• Strong knowledge running production grade APIs in a cloud native environment (AWS);

• Strong knowledge in DynamoDB or similar no-sql database;

• Great verbal and written communication skills;

• Ability to lead technical discussions, and keep them on track/point;

• Experience and knowledge at the framework level: ExpressJs, NestJS (an asset);

• Experience with Python (an asset)

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes and related container technologies (an asset);

• Specifically knowledge of running APIs on ECR/EKS (an asset);

• iOS, Android or Progressive WebApp experience (an asset).

*Nous remercions tous(tes) les candidat(e)s. Le genre masculin a été utilisé dans le but d'alléger le texte. Nous souscrivons au principe de l’équité en matière d’emploi.

Pourquoi choisir Mistplay ?

Nous faisons tout pour rendre notre environnement de travail aussi accueillant et plaisant que possible ! Un poste chez Mistplay s’accompagne de toute une série d'avantages que nous proposons en mode virtuel ou présentiel : déjeuners d'équipe, soirées jeux, événements à l'échelle de l'entreprise, et bien plus encore.

Notre culture est profondément ancrée dans la croissance et soutenue par une équipe de personnes intelligentes, dynamiques et enthousiastes. Nous utilisons les données pour apprendre, améliorer et adapter en permanence. Nous favorisons un environnement dans lequel chacun est encouragé à partager ses idées, à repousser les limites, à prendre des risques calculés et à voir ses visions se concrétiser.

Why Mistplay?

We strive to make our work environment as inviting and fun as possible! Working at Mistplay is coupled with a whole array of perks that we've adopted virtually and in-person: Team Lunches, game nights, company-wide events, and so much more.