Senior Software Engineer Backend

**About Drift****About Digital First**Drift is a Digital First company, which means Remote is the primary experience for all employees. For the majority of our positions, your location is flexible If "Remote" is stated in the job location, that role can be located anywhere Drift is authorized to do business in the United States.Select roles may require you to be located in a city where we have a Conversation Space (currently Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA, Tampa, FL, and London, UK - with more to come across the globe), or work hours associated with a specific time zone. If this is the case, it will be explicitly stated in the job description. Please work with your recruiter and hiring manager to learn more about where Drift is authorized in the U.S. and to determine if you are eligible for employment based on your location.**About the role**We are looking for Senior Engineers who are passionate and ready to tackle some of the most meaningful problems in the industry—from building adaptive AI for bot-supported conversations, to designing next generation chat experiences, to bridging the gap between old and new ways to buy.You may be involved in creating infrastructure that processes billions of messages a minute to extracting buyer intent and priority for conversations. You could also build tools to trace and visualize any message ever sent so our customers can zero in on giving the best buying experience.**Drift Tech Stack** - _These are not hard requirements_- Java- Python (Machine Learning, NLP teams)- AWS- Docker/Kubernetes- DynamoDB**Meet some of our leaders**Whether you're an intern or a principal, you will get to work on hard problems together. We want you to bring out your unique experience and specialities.- **Melissa Leffler**,** SVP of Engineering, joined January 2019. Melissa is building one of the best engineering teams in the business to take Drift's products to the next level.- **Bernard Kiyanda**, Senior Director of Engineering, joined September 2019. Bernard and his team are instrumental in us expanding to our enterprise customers.- **Ivan Saskor**, Director of Engineering, joined October 2020. Ivan and his team are building out solutions to create efficiencies for sales teams to close deals through automation- **Jeff Orkin, Ph.D**., Head of Drift AI Lab. Jeff and his team are responsible for all things AI and building tools using ML and NLP to continuously improve our platform- **Mate Rakic**,** Senior Director of Engineering, joined June 2018. Starting out as a Tech Lead at Drift, Mate is now leading a team of engineers to innovate the way companies engage prospective buyers and make the process frictionless across the board.**What we're looking for**- Passion around being closely involved with product teams to focus on realizing outcomes for our customers.- Being a technical expert on architectural decisions to help us scale- Engineers who enjoy driving best practices by facilitating code reviews and mentoring junior engineers- Enthusiasm for owning projects from conceptualization to implementation- Engineers with a sense of creating frameworks and products to enhance the work of others.**You may be a fit for this role if you**:- Can put yourself in the shoes of our customers to unite design & code and craft fantastic experiences- Enjoy working on the backend, or anywhere it takes to solve problems and delight customers- If you're exceptional in a few areas (ex: you're a CSS master or distributed systems guru)- You are a systems thinking and you have experience designing, building and maintaining REST APIs for use in production- Have architected RESTful services and understand concepts such as batching, versioning, and idempotency- Are considered an expert of a server side programming language (Java8/ Java11)- Take pride in creating results quickly by breaking projects down. We execute on small pieces to generate visible results- Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise- Can stitch together many different services and processes together even if you have not worked with them before- Uphold quality standards in engineering, security, and design**What you'll be doing on the team**:**Day 1 you will**- Use your onboarding time to learn how things work here and to practice writing and shipping software that makes our customers successful- Start to dig in and get the basics down about our customers- Learn Drift-specific systems, product information, and review paperwork (we have to get that out of the way).- Have lunch with your manager and maybe your team**By the end of week 1 you will**- Get to know your customer - Every team at Drift owns a different area of the product and our Customers are a super important ingredient to how we build products- Have received a first look into Drift engineering systems, culture and product process through various conversations;- How Product Works at Drift- Enginee