Who you are

• 5-7+ years of experience in a prior software development role
• You have experience with monitoring distributed systems at scale
• You develop scalable, robust, and maintainable code and fault-tolerant services/systems
• You are skilled in Go and PHP
• You’ve worked with cloud platforms as a service (AWS, GCP, etc.) for at least 3 years
• You know how to use Docker
• You’ve used container orchestration tools like Kubernetes or ECS
• You have experience in comprehending complex, custom-built codebases, and a history of thorough feature testing and migration
• You’re comfortable debugging systems at different layers of the stack
• You are comfortable in both static and dynamic languages and don’t mind switching between them
• You enjoy working with a team but have no problem working independently
• Nothing makes you happier than a hard problem solved well (and has “just the right” amount of documentation)
• You have or are currently mentoring other developers
• You have provided technical leadership on initiative(s) involving 2+ other engineers
• You have exposure to Infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform & Ansible
• Hands-on experience with CI systems such as TravisCI
• Passionate about security and privacy

What the job involves

• You will be joining the Core Platforms team
• You'll get the opportunity to create and work on the backend platform and systems that power Wattpad
• The purpose of the team is to establish a robust set of centralized tools that backend developers can use to implement secure, performant, consistent code quickly to increase the productivity and happiness of Wattpad engineers
• You will be creating new tools, defining architectural best practices and creating frameworks for engineers to follow
• Our technology creates capabilities to understand stories and users and accelerates our ability to innovate at Wattpad
• Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 45k requests every second
• You’ll be assisting in modernizing our backend platform and systems which currently include our monolith, microservices and backend infrastructure
• Our monolith is written in PHP and backed by S3, Redis, Memcache, MySQL and Cloudflare
• Our microservices are written in Go and are backed by S3, DynamoDB and MySQL
• At this scale, caching is paramount so we have multiple terabytes of data across memcached, redis and groupcache
• Designing, building, and maintaining functionality on a large-scale distributed system serving millions of people per day
• Writing new features, tools and services in Go and PHP
• Improving reliability and performance of core components and existing systems
• Writing unit and service tests for all your code
• Defining best practices and providing mentorship and support to other engineers
• Researching and implementing new technology to solve tomorrow’s scaling issues
• Advocating for the adoption of tools across the engineering org

Benefits

• Full health benefits
• Career development & Mentorship opportunities
• RRSP matching
• Generous parental Leave top-up
• Flexible hours
• Regular hackathons
• Healthy snacks & drinks
• Your choice of hardware
• Monthly work-from-home allowance
• Beautiful offices in Toronto and Halifax
• Easy access to transit