• A strong understanding of scalable, maintainable, and reliable system architectures.
• Expertise in designing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies for backend systems.
• Experience analyzing system failures and troubleshooting complex issues.
• Deep knowledge of AWS Infrastructure / DevOps
• High familiarity with monitoring and observability tools and strategies for distributed systems.
• Skills in designing robust error handling and fault tolerance mechanisms.
• Experience building data pipelines.
• Experience with our tech-stack: Restful API, Hapi (Node), PostgresSQL, AWS Infrastructure
• AWS: CloudFront, CloudWatch, EC2, ECR, ECS, EFS, IAM, Lambda, RDS, Route 53, S3, SNS, SQS
• Strong points of view on the right way to build software. We’ll expect to hear them from day 1.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• A passion for continuous learning. Great engineers aren’t born. They’re made.
• Ideally, a music background.

• Full Benefits, 401K, Vacation, Dental
• Equity
• Ability to work fully remote or if local work 2 days in office (West Loop, Chicago, IL) 

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They&rsquo;re made.</span></li><li fr-original-style="line-height:108%;font-family:serif;font-size:15px;" style="line-height: 108%; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Ideally, a music background.</span></li></ul><div fr-original-style="line-height: 108%; font-size: 15px;" style="line-height: 108%; font-size: 15px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Compensation:</strong></span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">&nbsp;</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; box-sizing: border-box; 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font-size: inherit; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;" type="disc"><li fr-original-style="line-height:108%;font-family:serif;font-size:15px;" style="line-height: 108%; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Full Benefits, 401K, Vacation, Dental</span></li><li fr-original-style="line-height:108%;font-family:serif;font-size:15px;" style="line-height: 108%; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Equity</span></li><li fr-original-style="line-height:108%;font-family:serif;font-size:15px;" style="line-height: 108%; font-family: serif; font-size: 15px; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: inherit;">Ability to work fully remote or if local work 2 days in office (West Loop, Chicago, IL)</span><span fr-original-style="font-family:Calibri;" style="font-family: Calibri; 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