Scala Backend Engineer (Remote)

at  vidIQ

ABOUT VIDIQ

vidIQ builds software to help YouTube creators achieve their goals by growing their channels. Our mission is to advance the creator’s journey with actionable data-driven insights and AI powered tools. We pursue this through our values of being creator obsessed, lean and fast, and being scientific. We have already helped millions of creators, and we are looking for stunning co-workers to join us in helping millions more.
Imagine a product that reached over a million users without a sales team. That same product is at the edge of where careers are headed, where every person becomes their own brand with limitless growth potential ahead. That’s the opportunity at vidIQ – an infinite market, a large and highly engaged customer base, and the chance to help build and scale vidIQ’s data engine that drives insights for millions of creators.
The best way to understand vidIQ is to play with the product: www.vidiq.com/extension

ABOUT THE TEAM

We’re a team of 100+ people and growing quickly. Our vision is to be the smart copilot for every creator. We strive to create a welcoming environment where our team of smart, passionate people can share ideas with each other and do their best work. We are looking for team members who are excellent at their craft, communicate with kindness, and act like owners.

You will work on the development of existing web-services, and creating new one’s and working with data intensive applications. Work on system design and help scale services to handle hundreds of thousands of user requests.

• Take ownership of services that you are working on
• Troubleshoot different parts of the system in a timely fashion
• Take the initiative to resolve product issues.
• Help teammates with brainstorming sessions, technical design discussions, and code reviews (we highly appreciate all sort of improvements).
• Write readable, testable, maintainable code.
• Participate in on-call duties