Senior Software Engineer

The League is seeking a talented Senior Software Engineer to join us on our mission to make meaningful connections for those who refuse to settle.  Join our team to work on challenging problems using modern tools, and make a big impact on not just our technology - but the dating and social life of our users!  We are a lean engineering team so you will have many different opportunities to make meaningful contributions to important problem spaces. 

Know where you belong.

The League is the newest addition to the Match Group portfolio . The League was created for ambitious, career-focused singles looking for a long-term relationship. Creating a sense of belonging doesn’t stop at our products - it’s the foundation of every team we hire.

This is a remote position. We will consider candidates across the US.

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As part of the team, your responsibilities will include:

• Understanding our backend technologies
• Working alongside and communicating with other talented engineers
• Estimating stories and tasks considering complexity, uncertainty, and level of effort
• Finding healthy balances between release speed, tech-debt, and code quality
• Writing and maintaining code, tests, and bug fixes for production systems
• Creating secure, performant API resources for frontend teams
• Improving security, performance, and maintainability of the backend stack
• Configuring and maintaining AWS infrastructure through code
• Responding to production issues

As part of the team, you'll be able to:

• Use contemporary technologies to solve interesting problems.  Our primary backend stack consists of Node, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS.
• Build new features on top of a solid codebase
• Bring new insight and ideas to solve both challenging and straightforward problems
• Make not just backend contributions, but frontend as well 

We could be a Match if you have:

• BS in Computer Science or related field
• Professional experience deploying production code for at least 5 years
• Experience with Javascript or Typescript in a Node.js environment
• Experience with SQL (preferably PostgreSQL) 
• Experience with Terraform and AWS
• Experience and alignment with Agile methodologies
• Experience as a generalist working across multiple areas (including API code, UI code, and database optimization)

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Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary range is reflective of a position based in Los Angeles, CA. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

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