LotusFlare is a provider of cloud-native SaaS products based in the heart of Silicon Valley. Founded by the team that helped Facebook reach over one billion users, LotusFlare was founded to make affordable mobile communications available to everyone on Earth.
Today, LotusFlare focuses on designing, building, and continuously evolving a digital commerce and monetization platform that delivers valuable outcomes for enterprises. Our platform, Digital Network Operator® (DNO™) Cloud, is licensed to telecommunications services providers and supports millions of customers globally.
LotusFlare has also designed and built the leading eSIM travel product - Nomad. Nomad provides global travelers with high-speed, affordable data connectivity in over 190 countries. Nomad is available as an iOS or Android app or via getnomad.app.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Server Engineering team, based in Toronto.

REQUIREMENTS:

• You are experienced in the end-to-end software development lifecycle (design, implementation, debugging, testing, and maintenance).
• You have dealt with complex time-critical issues (production incidents or outages).
• You have worked on a product with a large user base.
• You have a strong passion for scalable, highly available, distributed systems.
• You make sure that the code you write is reusable, maintainable, and well documented.
• You are driven by dealing with new challenges every day.
• You have a knack for driving change, proposing new solutions as well as challenging others’ ideas.
• You enjoy sharing your knowledge with other people, as well as learning from them.

SKILLS:

• You have at least 5 years of experience working as a Software Engineer
• You have experience with Lua, Java, and Scala programming languages.
• You have experience with Amazon Web Services and/or Azure.
• You have experience with NoSQL databases (preferably Redis or Cassandra).
• You have an advanced understanding of the network stack, HTTP protocol, and RESTful services.
• You have experience with messaging platforms like Kafka.

• Your day starts usually with a daily meeting/standup/quick sync up
• Your daily responsibilities include the entire software cycle from developing/testing, to code reviews and maintaining/managing your code/application on production.
• You closely collaborate with product and and other functional engineering teams
• You take time out of your day to closely collaborate with your teammates, asking questions or providing answers
• You take ownership of the code you writ