Senior Backend Engineer - kosmic.io｜Meet.jobs

Talking to learners of different ages, we realized that the reason why there isn’t a leading online education platform today is that education platforms all over the internet have poor user experience. Built around the idea to perfect the user experience of online education, kosmic.io is an online education platform to distribute engaging educational content at scale - starting with high-school students in Hong Kong. Simply speaking - it's a marketplace, and on students' side - it's an online learning platform where students can subscribe to courses in pre-recorded format or engage with tutors in live-streaming; on tutors' side - it's a platform with everything to start their online education businesses such as developing and selling the courses online, also growing their brand and sales. We want to be the definitive education company - the platform you go whenever you wanna learn.

Kosmic is an engineering company working on next-generation solutions for education so everyone can enjoy access to engaging educational content. Our engineers build and maintain next-generation technologies that will change how millions of learners all over the world learn and master the knowledge from a compelling knowledge hub we built from ground up. At Kosmic, you will work with our Product Team closely, talk to customers, fix pain points on the fly so our product can to handle, and most importantly organize knowledge under rapid growth. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Engineering Team.

Responsibilities:

1. Develop API’s and integrations for a large-scale application according to business needs and priorities.
2. Architect efficient and reusable back-end systems that drive complex web and mobile applications.
3. Create high-quality code that is scalable, reliable and reusable.
4. Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including development, code reviews, testing, and production deployment.
5. Write unit/integration tests to ensure the high quality of the application.
6. Collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers to deliver compelling user-facing products.
7. Identify and resolve customer pain points, performance and scalability issues with Product Team, partners and users.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. 4+ Year relative industry experience
2. Experience working as a product-oriented backend generalist who understands how to interface with user-facing systems.
3. Experience designing an API, creating the data schema, and connecting it all together in a stable, optimized manner across multiple services.
4. Experience with Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and Django framework.
5. Knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
6. Experience with Video CDN and Live-streaming is a plus.
7. Passion for code quality and enabling others to more quickly develop reliable, performant code
8. Ability to participate and advise on all aspects of product development (design, architecture, implementation and testing)
9. Product, design and UX sensibilities.

Our Tech Stack:

1. React.js
2. Django 2.x
3. PostgreSQL

*Kosmic is committed to working with the best and brightest people from the broadest talent pool possible. We believe a diversity of ideas fosters innovation and engagement, and allows us to attract the best people, and to develop the best products, services and solutions. Qualified individuals from all walks of life are encouraged to apply.