Nift is redefining how customers discover new businesses. With millions of people using Nift each month, our real-time AI platform is built for massive scale on AWS. Our small but nimble product team loves tackling big complex engineering challenges. We look for smart engineers who are passionate about building, owning, and scaling features, while finding creative solutions to technical obstacles.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will own projects from start to finish, get excited about writing clean and reliable code, and play a key role in helping to build and scale our AWS infrastructure. This is a high-impact role with direct visibility into how your work drives growth.

One of Nift’s core values is that we make decisions based on data, not seniority or hunches. To be successful in this role, you must be data-driven. You must have a passion for continuously measuring and improving our customers’ experience, and a natural gravitation towards AWS, scalability, and performance related projects.

Team Tech Stack:

Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
RSpec
JavaScript
HTML5
Vue.js
Redis

What you will do:

Own your assigned development projects from start to finish
Collaborate with our Chief Architect to design, optimize, enhance and evolve our AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, ECS, etc.)
Implement CI/CD pipelines and monitor system health
Contribute to architectural decisions across the stack
Troubleshoot performance and infrastructure issues, and proactively identify areas for improvement
Write clean, tested, maintainable code—and help others do the same through code reviews

Required Skills

Proficient in Ruby on Rails
Experience with SQL databases
Hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, ECS, etc.) or Google Cloud infrastructure in a commercial setting
Comfortable with CI/CD workflows and Linux environments
Strong grasp of software architecture principles and design patterns
Able to write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Able to persevere through engineering challenges: willingness to embrace and not shy away from a problem you haven’t seen before
Open to new ideas and methods of problem solving

*Preferred Skills

Experience with distributed systems
Experience performance tuning and scaling systems with high volumes of user traffic
Experience with Apache Spark
Familiarity with database systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL or NoSQL

What you need

Minimum of 10 years of professional experience as a Backend / Infrastructure Software Engineer
Passion for backend and infrastructure development
Self-motivation, grit, & tenacity
Ownership Mindset: Proactive and self-driven with a strong sense of initiative, consistently taking responsibility, and exceeds expectations

What you get:

Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits (401K, Medical/Dental/Vision), and we offer all full-time employees the potential to hold company equity
Flexible remote work
Unlimited Responsible PTO
Great opportunity to join a growing, cash-flow-positive company while having a direct impact on Nift's revenue, growth, scale, and future success

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