New York, NY or Santa Clara, CA

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a passionate backend engineer who is enthusiastic about and has experience buildingscalable, low latency and secure systems. At Peloton, you will have the opportunity to rapidly change theface of the fitness industry. You will be working in a high velocity software engineering environment, on ateam, building backend systems that power the engagement of Peloton consumers over connected anddigital devices. You will be responsible for leading large scale projects, collaborating within the team, andwith cross functional teams on estimating project scopes, setting milestones, as well as identifying project risks and dependencies. 

YOUR DAILY IMPACT AT PELOTON 

Design and Development

• Assume technical responsibility for new services and functionality, lookout for opportunities forplatform improvement, and work with engineers to scale our production systems.
• Identify and lead technical initiatives to build clean, robust, and performant applications.
• Contribute to the design of software architecture and development of new features andfunctionalities in the stack.

Drive large-scale projects

• Collaborate with cross-functional team members from Product, Design, Program Management inorder to deliver against quarterly and annual roadmap objectives.
• Handle planning and breaking down large projects into milestones and identifying risks anddependencies.

YOU BRING TO PELOTON

• Experience in building scalable backend framework that supports a rapid growing user base
• 5 years of software development experience
• Experience building Python, Java or Kotlin backend framework at scale
• Experience with designing RESTful API
• Experience with working on service oriented architecture and RPC design
• Experience with concurrency and parallelism in Python and/or Java
• Experience with data modeling and at least one database engine (MySQL, PostgreSQL,DynamoDB etc.)
• Experience with developing secure API endpoints
• Deep understanding of HTTP, TCP, SSL in API context
• Ability to own and deliver end to end API functionality from design/architect, to implementation, totesting, to production release and monitoring
• Ability to accomplish complex engineering task independently
• Ability to manage complex cross team coordinations and work closely with product owners
• Ability to evaluate and communicate different engineering solutions and trade-offs
• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering or in similar discipline years of work experience

BONUS

• Have experience working with gRPC and designing microservices from ground up
• Have solid understanding of clean software design principles
• Have Github project(s) or contribute to open source communities
• Have worked in a Test Driven Development environment before
• Have experience in building secure consumer facing APIs
• Have a diverse knowledge of other programming languages and frameworks
• Have continuous build experience in an Agile Environment
• Have experience leading backend development and engineering

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