Software Engineer, Backend - Developer and Enterprise Solutions

  • Full-time

Company Description

Twitter is what’s happening and what people are talking about right now. For us, life's not about a job, it's about purpose. We believe real change starts with conversation. Here, your voice matters. Come as you are and together we'll do what's right (not what's easy) to serve the public conversation.

Job Description

We are unifying the developer experience by developing a set of robust APIs that allow easy access for developers to use Twitter data! As part of the team, you will design, architect, and implement scalable backend systems that provide a consistent and reliable developer experience through our APIs.

Who we are:

Developer and Enterprise Solutions (DES) is home to the Twitter API. We care about enabling developers to understand, learn, enhance, and engage with the public conversation, ranging from the everyday hobbyist to enterprise businesses, by allowing them to interact with Twitter data in real time. Our software processes, enriches, and delivers hundreds of billions of Tweets through a wide variety of APIs, meaning we have the hard job of delivering an excellent customer experience at scale.

Qualifications

  • 2-4 years of industry or equivalent programming experience
  • 3+ years of work experience

  • Understanding of core CS concepts, such as data structures and algorithms

  • Professional or relevant project experience in building and operating distributed backend systems in Java, Scala, C++ or any other OOP or functional programming languages.

  • Intermediate design and architecture skills

  • Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)

Additional Information

A few other things we value:

Customer Aligned - Providing a valuable customer experience while ensuring our APIs are reliably available. 

Learning Mentality - To grow quickly, it is important to actively seek feedback, learn from failures, and listen to different perspectives. 

Clear, Open, Consistent, and Frequent Communication - Collaboration is a key part of our every day job and maintaining communication within and across teams is important.

Diversity - Diversity makes us a better organization and team. We value different backgrounds, ideas, perspectives, and experiences.

 

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Twitter. Twitter is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

San Francisco applicants: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

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