Senior Backend Engineer (Java & PHP)

About YouYou are an experienced software architect and have designed and deployed distributed systems into production. You understand how to scale applications, including performance tuning, relational database modeling and data access patterns, caching, logging, monitoring, alerting, and urgent response. You love to build for and support engineers as customers and you understand how to design libraries and tools that make everyone’s life simpler and easier.You are humble with a sense of humor and don’t take yourself too seriously. You have been working in or dreamed of working in the gaming industry and are ready to turn your talents towards chess!What you'll doWork with a small team of highly experienced engineers on creating new, highly scalable services or help scale existing codebase and storage for a global top 200 website. Contribute to technology, architecture, workflow, and design decisions.Preferred SkillsExperience with large data setsExperienced engineer who can adapt to ever changing needsExcellent understanding of software design and architectural patternsMultidisciplinary - familiar with many application stacksPHP and Java experienceExperience with KafkaExperience with RedisExperience with MySQLExperience with MongoExperience working with CloudExperience with SQL schema design and query optimizationExperience with command line and Unix systemsExperience working with a fully distributed teamSense of ownership and responsibilityAbout the OpportunityThis is a full-time opportunityWe are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)---You can learn more about us here:https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-chess-com-virtual-team-works-togetherhttps://www.chess.com/about

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