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Senior Software Engineer

Sitting at the intersection of social networking and gaming, we empower creativity and connection in a digital world. Our mission is to build deep, rich virtual worlds where everyone belongs.

To build creative worlds where you belong.

Are you a server-side developer with a keen interest in reliable solutions? Is Python your language? Do you want a challenging role that goes beyond backend development and includes infrastructure and operations problems?

If you answered yes to all of the above, you should join our fast-growing team at Highrise!

We are looking for an experienced Backend/DevOps Engineer who will focus on backend development in Python and will be working on the reliability, efficiency and scalability of our systems. As a member of our small team, you will have a lot of independence and responsibilities.

This role, along with our entire company, is fully remote, but applicants in North American time zones are preferred.

As Senior Software Engineer you will...:

• Design and maintain systems that are robust, flexible and performant
• Be responsible for building complex and take high- scale systems
• Prototype new gameplay ideas and concepts
• Develop server tools for game features and live operations
• Be one of three backend engineers on our small and fast moving team
• Work alongside our C++, Android, and iOS developers
• Contribute to ideas and design for new features

To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to…:

• Have 4+ years of experience in Python development
• Be familiar with common database access patterns
• Have experience with designing systems and monitoring metrics, looking at graphs
• Be able to work well in a remote development environment
• Be able to communicate in English at a native speaking and writing level
• Be responsible to your fellow remote team members
• Be highly communicative and go out of your way to contribute to the team and help others

Within 3 months, you'll…:

• Be able to contribute new features as well as maintain existing code
• Contribute to the development process with new improvement ideas
• Assist other team members to work with the backend

Within 6 months, you'll...:

• Architect new features on your own
• Contribute to the direction of Highrise, both in terms of product and technical
• Come up with large scale refactoring ideas to improve backend cost and performance

We are a global team of nearly 100 people right now and rapidly growing. We feel a sense of ownership over our work and take great pride in what we do. We are not afraid to make, and most importantly, admit our mistakes — that allows us to show up authentically and build relationships of trust across the board. We are the scrappy kind, so we try to do more with less, and we love that! If you were to ask our team to describe our culture, they would probably say we are a passionate group of peeps trying to impact the next revolution of the internet.

Dream big, then make it real.

Be an owner, make a difference.

Build with humility.

Fast is better than slow.

Keep it scrappy.

Always be learning.