Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable real-time systems for a live stream platform. Involve backend and frontend development with a focus on backend, contribute to product development, improve system stability, and work on real-time updates using Web Sockets.
Remote position: IST time Zone only
Who we are:
Drip (dripshop.live) is the shopify for social commerce; using it’s AI-enabled tools, sellers can interact and transact safely and seamlessly on Drip’s social marketplace and social media platforms. Since launching, drip has enabled creators, resellers & brands to generate 10s of millions in income. We are backed by leading investors and notable angels including Base10 Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Harlem Capital & Eniac Ventures.
Our Values:
We are seller first
We are customer obsessed
Engaged with the community we build for
Embrace in radical ownership
Value radical candor
Strive to be excellent
Make the case for optimism
Who you are:
- Passionate about (or excited to learn about) our core collectible categories (Pokémon, Magic, sports cards, and other trading cards)
- Full Stack Engineering w/more focus on backend, with experience building and launching products
- Structured, process-oriented, and data-driven
- Love working in a fast-paced startup environment and a small team — juggling multiple
- priorities and making things happen
- Excited to help build something new and define the future of live commerce
- Flexible, collaborative team player
Roles & Responsibilities:
This is an advanced Individual Contributor with some team lead
- Architect, design and implement a scalable real time systems.
- We are building live stream platform, that has many Web Socket events for Realtime updates across various users.
- Contribute to product development helping the team build backend for live stream commerce
- Monitor system and identify bottlenecks and improve system stability.
- Research better ways to implement various aspect of systems
- Contribute to both frontend and backend with an emphasis on the backend development
Required background:
- 8 or more years after college
- Deep full stack experience weighted to the backend
- Past experience building scalable systems. with a minimum 5k to 10k request per sec
- Experience with ReactJS and heavy NodeJS
- Strong experience with GraphQL
- Strong experience with ORM's
- team leadership and skills to work with mobile engineers
- Architect micro services and build real time systems
- Solid experience with web sockets
- Comfortable architecting, coding and can do test driven development.
- Ideal candidates have worked on building scalable real time apps, for companies like Discord, Twitter, Slack, Agora, Ably, Pubnub, Pushr as examples
Top Skills
GraphQL
Node.js
React
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