Back-end Engineer

(full-time)

Whova is seeking a full-time Back-end Engineer! You will join a team where everyone shares a common interest in distributed backend systems, their scalability, and continued development. You will be responsible for building and improving the backend services across all Whova products.

Whova provides an all-in-one event management solutions including a mobile event app to support conferences, expos, tradeshows, networking and business events. Whova is a fast-growing company with customers in more than 50 countries.

Whova is proud to be a winner of the San Diego Business Journal’s the Best Places to Work in San Diego in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, four years in a row.

Whova also won the Fastest Growing Private Companies award from the San Diego Business Journal in 2018 and 2019.

Responsibilities & Requirements:

• Design, develop and deploy backend services with focus on high availability, low latency and scalability
• Build and operate infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines
• Help improve our code quality through writing unit tests, automation and performing code reviews
• Work with the product and design teams to understand end-user requirements, formulate use cases, and then translate that into a pragmatic and effective technical solution
• Dive into difficult problems and successfully deliver results on schedule

Desired Skills & Experience

• You have recent hands-on coding and software design experience
• You have a deep understanding of how the computer system works
• You are comfortable writing Python
• You have a good understanding of data structures and algorithms, and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions
• You find satisfaction in a job well done and want to solve head-scratching challenges
• You are experienced working with modern infrastructure and tools