About Sierra Studio
When you apply to Sierra, you join an ecosystem. We specialize in connecting talented Brazilian professionals with exciting career opportunities in a highly-vetted small community of growing companies in the US. Applying to Sierra seamlessly integrates you into this ecosystem, granting automatic eligibility for all relevant opportunities we offer.
About Our Hiring Partner
Our hiring partner has developed a large-scale web platform that handles real-time social media data (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc.). In collaboration with their data scientists, they've incorporated innovative technologies such as machine learning and AI to bring a new standard to online brand protection. Their team is born remote, with over 18 nationalities amongst them.
Do you want to work with cutting-edge technologies in an agile, fully remote environment? Do you want to be part of a Social Media revolution, fighting hate speech, racism and fraud every day? Then you may be their new Backend Developer!
What You'll Do
- Work with a focused team of experienced developers, data scientists, and product-driven entrepreneurs
- Participate actively in platform development strategy and company growth initiatives
- Build new features, being in charge of your own projects from day one
- Be involved in the entire development cycle from development to production
- Work closely with experienced developers, data scientists and growth teams
- Take an active role along with the team in ongoing operations and support
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend engineer working with Node.js and TypeScript (NestJS an advantage)
- Experience with building auto-scalable high-throughput real-time services and web applications
- Working experience with AWS services (e.g.: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, OpenSearch, ECS, S3, etc.)
- Good knowledge of building APIs
- Experience with AWS serverless architectural patterns, preferably AWS SAM
- Knowledge of working with streams and messaging services (e.g.: SNS, SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB Streams, etc.)
- OOP, TDD, good knowledge of coding and security best practices
- Experience working with CI / CD pipelines, preferably AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
- Strong interest in learning new technologies and being highly proactive
- Excellent communication skills
Great to have
- Working experience with social media APIs (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok or similar) and developing solutions for the social media/digital advertising vertical
- Working experience with big data and data streams
- Experience with building SaaS platforms or scalable B2B solutions
Benefits
- Work at a high-growth company that works with some of the world's top brands
- Agile working environment with experienced developers and data scientists
- Options to rapidly advance in your career and projects
- Opportunity to travel a few times per year
- 4 weeks of paid holidays
