**About Company **\nImagine being part of a nimble team where your ideas and input have the potential to impact millions of lives.\n\nIRL is the leading group messaging social network that brings people together through events and shared experiences. With its wide range of in-app offerings, including personalized event suggestions using artificial intelligence, calendar integrations, messenger and private group pages, IRL deepens everyone's ability to connect through organic community-building and engaging social interaction. \n\nBased on humans' natural group orientation and essential need to communicate, especially in the post-COVID era, IRL is building the future of interaction by translating these inherent needs onto one platform and encouraging users to do more together.\n\nIRL is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.\n\n**Our benefits for U.S. employees:**\nIRL pays 99% of the monthly premium for platinum and gold PPO medical insurance, plus vision and dental coverage, for employees and their spouses, partners & children.\nAll employees receive 25 days of Personal Time Off every calendar year plus 5 Floating Holidays.\nSick leave honor system: Employees can take up to 2 consecutive days per illness without having to take PTO.\nRemote Work Set Up Stipend for new employees of up to $7,500 for engineers and $5,000 for non-engineers.\nAll-Purpose Stipend of $4,800 per year for ongoing remote work expenses plus an incredible range of products and services.\nCelebrations Stipend: Employees may receive up to $1,200 per year for personal and family events planned through the IRL app.\nStudent Loan Repayment: IRL will contribute up to $437.50 per month, with a maximum lifetime benefit of $31,500, for the repayment of employee student loans.\nProfessional Development: IRL will contribute up to $3,000 annually, with a maximum lifetime benefit of $12,000, for expenses associated with employee professional development.\n401(k) Retirement Plan (coming Fall 2021) with 100% match on up to 6% of employee salary.\nRecent Press:\n\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22534253/irl-social-network-facebook-groups-calendar-events-messaging https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2021/06/15/social-messaging-app-irl-gets-11-billion-valuation-from-softbank-plots-monetization/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/15/messaging-social-network-irl-hits-unicorn-status-with-softbank-led-170m-series-c/\n\n**Job Summary**\nWe are looking for an engineer to join our Backend Team. You will be responsible for rebuilding and rearchitecting our notifications system from the ground up.\n\n**Required Experience**\n5+ years experience\n2+ Year experience working with notifications, email, and SMS\nMySQL\nPHP 7\nAWS Core Services (EC2, SNS, SES, S3)\nDesirable Experience\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills\nExperience using performance analysis and debugging tools\nProviding mentorship to other engineers\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or the equivalent hands-on experience\nExperience with gathering and documenting technical requirements and specifications\nExperience with NoSQL databases.\nCaching technologies like Redis & Memcached\nExperiencing reviewing technical specifications and architectural plans with the ability to make trade-offs and compromise to meet business objectives and product goals\nAbility to mentor other developers and provide technical direction on application architecture\nExperience working in an Agile and SCRUM environment\nStrong problem-solving capabilities\nWhat does success look like in this role? Rather than something abstract, we imagine you helping us achieve the following success:\n\n3 month success: Gain a deep understanding of the existing monolith API and underlying notification architecture. Finalize new architecture for notifications system.\n6 month success: Complete overhaul of new notifications system. Work with growth team on notifications roadmap. Commit a substantial amount of code to all new initiatives within the notifications roadmap.\n12 month success: Become a leader within the backend team. Mentor new devs, continue substantial code contribution, and continue being a reliable source of support for vision of overall backend architecture. \n\nPlease mention the words **SPEND AGREE VALLEY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMjIyLjIzLjExOQ==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n
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