
// Open Role at Keywords Studios
Join Helpshift as a Backend Engineer to build scalable distributed systems, design robust APIs, and enhance the reliability and performance of high-volume conversation processing systems.
The Software Engineer II will:
Requirements
4+ years of medium/large scale server-side software development experience
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Thorough knowledge of CS fundamentals:
Data structures
Time complexity of algorithms
Knowledge of POSIX compliant Operating Systems (Mac OS X development and GNU/Linux deployment)
Comfortable using CLI tools for day-to-day tasks
Experience in writing:
Unit tests
Functional tests
Regression tests
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
Experience working with distributed version control tools (Git)
Knowledge of functional programming (Clojure preferred)
Knowledge of the JVM
Experience working with one or more of:
MongoDB
Redis
Elasticsearch
Kafka
PostgreSQL
Experience with benchmarking systems for performance and failure detection
Knowledge of generative testing
- 4+ years of medium/large scale server-side software development experience- Excellent verbal and written communication skills- Thorough knowledge of CS fundamentals: Data structures, Time complexity of algorithms- Knowledge of POSIX compliant Operating Systems (Mac OS X development and GNU/Linux deployment)- Comfortable using CLI tools for day-to-day tasks- Experience in writing: Unit tests, Functional tests, Regression tests- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)