Senior Backend Engineer

Créée en 2014, la mission de Glose est de créer le futur de la lecture et du partage des savoirs.
Glose a été acquise en 2021 par Medium, la plateforme unique de lecture et d’écriture basée à San Francisco.

Glose est l’application qui rend la lecture plus sociale, plus efficace et plus fun. Sur web et mobile, Glose permet de découvrir, lire, surligner et annoter les passages de milliers de livres numériques et d’échanger avec une communauté de lecteurs.

Medium est une plateforme de création et de diffusion de contenus digitaux où chaque auteur peut exprimer ses idées sous la forme d’articles à destination de tous les internautes du monde entier.

Experts dans leurs missions respectives, l’objectif de Glose et de Medium est de créer LE site le plus enrichissant du web, où lecteurs, auteurs et spécialistes se rencontrent, lisent, échangent et partagent leurs expériences.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the Books team, you’ll help engineer the best reading experience for readers and authors, create a place to spread ideas worth reading and contribute to our core architecture.
We’re looking for an experienced engineer who can build beautiful, polished user experiences and architect elegant, maintainable code. We prioritize fast iteration without compromising quality, while maintaining an attention to detail that creates the kind of thoughtful interactions we’re known for.

At Medium, we are proud of our product, our team, and our culture. Medium’s website and mobile apps are accessed by millions of users each day. We’re looking for mindful, empathetic, and self-aware engineers to join our team to help us move thinking forward. With a strong focus on growth and personal development, Medium is the ideal place to develop your skills in an environment that is built on mutual trust and respect.

What will you do?

• You’ll implement product enhancements that create a first class reader experience across our web and mobile apps.
• You’ll work closely with front-end web engineers, iOS engineers, and Android engineers to architect the backend for cross-platform features.
• You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineers across product and infrastructure teams to plan the team backlog.
• You’ll maintain architectural and design principles on the team.
• You’ll learn about a wide breadth of Medium’s product surface and engineering stacks.
• You’ll mentor Engineers on the team.

Who are you?

• You have 4+ years of software engineering experience and have a rock-solid foundation in Computer Science (data structures, algorithms, software design).
• You are passionate about learning new things.
• You are a team player willing to lend support when necessary.
• You believe in the craft of software engineering, but are pragmatic when necessary.
• You respectfully challenge your peers, and welcome being challenged.
• You work autonomously, and are more energized by missions and goals than a specific list of tasks.
• Good oral and written communication in English

We’d particularly love if:

• You have experience in Javascript (Node and TypeScript)
• You have experience in Go
• You have a deep passion for building great user experiences
• You are familiar with GraphQL APIs

If you apply for a position in our team, you will undergo a 4 stage interview process:

• Resume and motivation screening: this is to know who you are and what you have achieved.
• Technical challenge at home: and then to build a small product. This is to show us how you build things.
• Technical challenge in our office: you will be asked to solve more abstract problems live with our team. This is to see how you think. And also to debrief on what you build.
• Personal meeting: this is to understand who you are and what you want –and to explain more of our culture. This is more personal. We don’t recruit to fill fixed positions. We recruit to add extraordinary individuals to our team. Individuals who want to expand, improve, take responsibility in building great things.

Throughout all this process, our obsession is to help you succeed, and get a good feel for the work we do and the team we are.

At Medium, we foster an inclusive, supportive, fun yet challenging team environment. We value having a team that is made up of a diverse set of backgrounds and respect the healthy expression of diverse opinions. We embrace experimentation and the examination of all kinds of ideas through reasoning and testing. Come join us as we continue to change the world of digital media. Medium is an equal opportunity employer

Sound like you? We’d love to hear from you.