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What You'll Do (Job Description)
You will be joining the Velocity Squad whose purpose is to increase the effectiveness of our engineers through improving existing systems and creating internal tools. Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 40k requests every second. We’re looking to add a backend engineer to our team to help find creative solutions to allow their fellow engineers to deliver faster and more efficiently. Our system is transitioning from a monolith to microservices hosted on AWS. The microservices are written in Go and are backed by S3, DynamoDB, MySQL, and other appropriate storage solutions. At this scale, caching is paramount so we have multiple terabytes of data across memcached and redis. As the number of microservices is growing this introduces other interesting challenges, like achieving true continuous deployment using automated tests and Kubernetes.
You’ll be an integral part of not only implementing solutions to those challenges but designing them as well. Your engineering career and happiness are incredibly important to us so we are always finding new ways to level up your skills. Our talented and diverse engineers frequently go to conferences, watch tech talks together and present their technical achievements (and failures!). We understand how important flow is. We’re continually evolving how we work to ensure that engineers get to spend all their time doing what they enjoy most: building stuff.
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About Our company
Wattpad is a global multiplatform entertainment company whose vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Every month 65 million people around the world spend over 15 billion minutes on Wattpad to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Our brand banner includes: Wattpad, Tap by Wattpad, Wattpad Labs, Wattpad Studios, and Wattpad Brand Partnerships. We’re proudly based in Toronto, but our reach is global. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling, and write your next chapter with us!
Who are we? Entrepreneurs and Do-ers. Our vision is to entertain and connect the world through stories, and our mission is to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. What does that mean? We are visionaries, community builders, passionate problem solvers, storytellers, coffee snobs (tea drinkers, too!), curious by nature, and culturally diverse. What are we obsessed with? Our users. Solving complex problems and maximizing flow. Learning constantly. Building the next great storytelling product. Finding the greatest stories ever told. Dogs (and cats), coffee, and good snacks. How do we work? Autonomously, collaboratively, respectfully. Balancing with work, family, and play...and all while having a great time.
Culture and Diversity Wattpad is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate. Period. We have taken a leadership position on creating a culture and an organization that truly values diversity. At Wattpad, we believe cultural fit doesn’t mean culturally identical, and diversity of thought helps us to challenge one another to think big and think differently. Our team is as diverse and eclectic as the global Wattpad community. In case it’s not clear: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
How to apply
Apply here or send an email to devlon@wattpad.com with your resume, use 'Platform Engineer' as subject
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