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About Smartly.io
At its heart, Smartly.io is a product company. We’re building tools that help our customers work smarter and grow their businesses.
We want to be the best in the world at what we do—building a world-class product and service for our customers. The only way to succeed is to stay humble yet ambitious. We ask for and act on candid feedback to learn continuously from both our customers and teammates. We don’t rest on our laurels, there’s always room to improve.
Position
We are looking for an experienced backend focused developer to join team Render, the team responsible for building and operating our image and video rendering platform. The team is currently working on improving our video rendering solution which is built in typescript & node and is run in kubernetes.
Our users create image- and video templates to showcase products with the Smartly template editor. These templates can be combined with product information in order to create images or videos. This is what team Render does, we provide the platform for generating images and videos. Billions of them.
The rendering platforms are distributed systems spanning hundreds of physical servers to meet the demands for the massive load and reliable service. To give some sense of the scale, currently our systems are generating over 200TB of images and videos daily.
Read more about our image (the old version) and video rendering solutions in our blog:
Modernizing our Image Template Service
How We Built our Video Editing and Rendering Solution
Some context about the template editors:
Taking Creative Automation a Step Further: Introducing Video Templates
As a Backend Developer you will...
- Design, build and operate distributed image and video rendering systems running on Kubernetes
- Write maintainable, robust and well tested code
- Share knowledge and mentor junior engineers in the team
- Collaborate with diverse stakeholders, including working with product and the team building the template editors
Your qualification
- Excellent skills and understanding of Node.js
- Professional experience with TypeScript
- Experience with linux and distributed systems
- Some experience with web frontend, ideally React
- Bonus points for: Redis, Varnish Cache, HAProxy, Kubernetes, Puppeteer, Chromium
- Team player mentality and genuine interest to support and mentor junior team members
- Motivation for solving customers’ problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
What we offer
Our projects are a part of the DNA of our product, which means that every team will have some skin in the game. Your work will have a direct impact on our customers and our business. You will own your work, and we will support you in that ownership. We value work life balance and have a strong culture that we hope all of our Smartlies bring their own flavor to. As a company we provide a competitive salary, option package and a generous package of benefits.
Additional details
What to expect from our recruitment process
- First meeting: we're getting to know each other
- Meeting the Team Lead: learn more about your future team
- Technical interviews: You will take part in an interactive coding interview with one of our developers followed by a discussion around Systems Design and Architecture. As the final interview, we will have an Explore and Expand where we'll dig deeper into your main interests and core skills