Senior Backend Engineer
We are looking for a senior backend engineer to help us rapidly scale the KLASH infrastructure across the world
17 October, 2023
KLASH is a fast-growing collaboration platform used by film, TV, and game companies, including major players like Sweden's national broadcaster SVT, but also game companies like Funcom - the creator of Dune among other well known titles. The platform can change your way of working with all kinds of moving images.
Now we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us rapidly scale the KLASH infrastructure across the world.
As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to solve challenging technical problems, work with some of the biggest names in the industry, and shape the future of how creatives collaborate. We believe the intersection between creativity and technology is the most exciting space to work in - one that moves culture forward.
Responsibilities:
- System architecture, design, and development
- Overview and improve current infrastructure for scalability in a rapidly growing company
- Monitoring, operations, and automation
- Implement traceability and alerts with tools such as Sentry or New Relic
- Build tomorrow’s workflows around uploading, transcoding, rendering, and storage of game and media assets in the cloud
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience designing, developing, and operating SaaS infrastructures for scalability to millions of users
- Experience architecting solutions on cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Fluent in English
Desired skills:
- Experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and Postgres
- Good knowledge of Python 3
- Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Knowledge of caching (e.g. Redis) and CDN solutions
- Microservices and Queue systems such as Celery or BullMQ
Preferred skills:
- Video transcoding using FFmpeg or similar solution
- Experience connecting frontends in React / Next.JS
- Good knowledge of Django 3.x / 4.x
- Being able to speak or understand Swedish is a plus
What to expect working at KLASH:
Freedom and responsibility! We’re a small team where each person has a big impact on the end result. Everyone is involved in decision-making around product design and development, and our ways of working.
Workplace is in Gothenburg.
At KLASH, we believe in people with different backgrounds and skills. We want to bring together people of diverse races, age, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Everyone is welcome.
We enjoy exploring different interests together, such as craft beer, including non-alcoholic options, cooking, and cool hardware. During our latest staff party, we rented a restaurant kitchen and cooked a three-course dinner together. We're also enthusiastic about hardware and have access to the latest technology, including cinemas and live-streaming backpacks capable of transmitting 4K UHD live-streaming signals from all over the globe.
KLASH offers a competitive salary, good benefits, and stock equity.
Send your resumé or LinkedIn profile to jobs@klash.studio with the subject line “Senior Backend Engineer”. Interviews are conducted continuously. No consultancy or recruiting companies.
Your benefits at KLASH
Business co-ownership
We believe everyone should have a stake in the company they help building
Fitness
Your health is important. At KLASH, you will be able to exercise during working hours and we pay for your gym membership or other physical activity with a monthly allowance.
Study
Learn something new that interests you, such as attending a course or a conference. KLASH pays the fees.
Monday breakfast
Get a good start of the week with our Monday breakfast
6 weeks of paid vacation
Go on a summer and winter holiday and come back with new stories, ideas, and visions
The tools you can get
MacBook computer, latest iPhone or Android mobile phone, film cameras, game engines, monitors, the list goes on
Traveling
KLASH usually attends the Cannes Film Festival, IBC in Amsterdam, GDC in San Francisco, and Gamescom in Cologne, to name a few. If you like travelling, this is the place for you.
Backed by renowned investors
KLASH is backed by leading investors such as Sweden’s governmental VC company Almi Invest, the former chief of commercial at KING, the founders of Avalanche Studios, and famous entrepreneur and TV producer Peter Settman. We are a well-funded company on a mission to change the world through creative collaborations.
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