Backend/Server Engineer

Backend/Server Engineer (Full-Time)

About Picky

Picky is a fast-growing mobile-first community that enables consumers to discover the best beauty brands and products. With a focus on authenticity, education, and personalization, our community creates and consumes content about beauty, including K-Beauty and skincare.

Picky's product is cross-platform: iOS, Android and web. We are tackling the $250B beauty industry and aim to become the world's largest source of authentic information in the industry.

Check out Picky: onelink.to/fq2ksu

Picky's community of skincare enthusiasts all around the world is growing quickly, and we are able to provide unique product research experience with community data - personalized product recommendations, making skincare product discovery fun, effortless, and accessible for skincare product users of every level.

We're a fast-moving startup based in Seoul, Korea, founded by alumni of Google, Harvard, and Seoul National University. We are a diverse team of 8, with various backgrounds and nationalities - English being the common language. Everyone is excited about wearing multiple hats and tackling new challenges. We are backed by amazing investors including Northern Light Venture Capital; industry players incl. Cosmax; and angels including founders/executives of Supercell.

Job Brief
Our next big product update is aimed to happen in Q1 2021, which will bring us to another exponential user growth and engagement. We're looking for an experienced backend engineer who has ideally worked on mobile app/web project in AWS environment that had +1M user base. As the first full-time backend/server engineer, you will have the opportunity to work on every part of the process of re-building servers and backend infrastructure from ground-up with this role if you are the right candidate.

• Design, architect, deploy and manage multiple backend services around ingestion, normalization, search, serving
• Lay the foundation for a backend platform that allows fast iteration
• Build the systems to ensure best in class uptime and responsiveness for these systems

Requirements

• 3 years or more of back-end development
• Good English communication
• Proficient in one or more programming languages - React JS, Node.js/Javascript or C#, Java
• Experience with large web application algorithm pattern
• Experience with MySQL and MariaDB
• Experience with AWS and Docker

Our Tech Stack

• Web Frontend: React JS
• Backend: Node.js and MariaDB
• Infrastructure: AWS, Firebase
• Android/iOS: Flutter, Airship
• Design: Sketch, Adobe, Zeplin
• Data Science: Amplitude
• Collaboration tools: Github, Slack, Notion

Nice to have

• Profiency in Korean
• Working visa in Korea
• Direct working experience in mobile app project with +1M active users
• Personal interest in skincare and cosmetics

Application Instructions
Apply by 6/30
Email: [email protected] Send your resume and short introduction + Github profile