Tech Lead (Backend)
About The Position
Are you passionate about making the internet safer while growing in a hyper-growth SaaS startup?
Do you love developing quality features for real customers and solving complex challenges? Do you want to work with an amazing team, best-in-breed equipment? If so, ActiveFence is looking for you!
Active Fence has a fast-paced startup culture that centers on hard work and fun. We are growing fast and want to take you with us to make an impact in the online integrity world. Let's do it together!
Our Engineering team builds modern technology so we can catch the online bad guys. By using the best and most up to date technologies we are constantly working on new and existing features for ActiveFence’s SaaS platform. We implement processes for consuming and processing events at a high scale, as well as contribute to technical discussions of architecture growth and code evaluation. Joining this team means working with experienced colleagues and participating in code reviews.
Responsibilities:
- Define long term technical roadmap and contribute to system architecture decisions
- Collaborate closely with R&D teams, in a fast paced environment
- Provide architectural guidelines and technical expertise to our engineering team
REQUIREMENTS
- At least 5 years of practical experience of developing on large scale systems.Have a track record of designing and building large-scale, cloud-based, highly available software platforms.
- A strong collaborator. You understand cross-functional strategies and involve key stakeholders in decision making.
- Strong mentoring capabilities, a record as a developers’ advocate.
- Extensive experience with services-oriented architecture and APIs.
Our Stack:
- Node.js / Typescript
- RabbitMQ / Kafka / Redis / MongoDB / ElasticSearch
- AWS / Terraform / Kubernetes
- And much more…
ABOUT ACTIVEFENCE
ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. We support technology platforms, corporate enterprises, NGOs, and governments as they fight terror, hate speech, disinformation, child sexual abuse, and other malicious activities on the internet, protecting the public online and offline.
Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages.
Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors such as CRV and Norwest, ActiveFence has raised $100M to date; employs over 270 people worldwide, and has contributed to the online safety of billions of users across the globe.