Senior Backend Engineer - Core Platform Team
ActiveFence
Senior Backend Engineer - Core Platform Team
- R&D
- Ramat Gan, IL
Description
At ActiveFence, our Core Platform Team ensures the reliability, scalability, and security of the core backend systems that power our products. As a senior Backend Infrastructure Engineer you will join a highly technical team, provide technical leadership, and work with other R&D teams to design and implement efficient and scalable solutions for common and cross R&D requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Shared Services Development: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of core backend services and shared infrastructure libraries, driving innovation and ensuring they empower scalable, high-performance solutions across the organization.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with other R&D teams to ensure infrastructure solutions are efficiently integrated and provide the necessary support for feature development.
- System Reliability & Uptime: Architect resilient systems that ensure high availability and uptime of critical core services, focusing on proactive improvements and incident prevention through robust design and automation.
- CI/CD Pipeline Management: Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to enhance and support CI/CD pipelines, ensuring efficient, secure, and reliable deployments across the organization.
Requirements
- BSc degree in Computer Science, a related technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ Years of experience in server side development
- Proven experience with Python or Node.js
- TypeScript - advantage
- Experience with large scale production systems and pipelines.
- Worked with ML frameworks, algorithms and MLOps - Advantage
- Participated in agile practices and SaaS development
- Self learner, independent, and a team player with great communication skills.
- Expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and distributed systems.
- Experience with databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB) and messaging systems (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ).
- A can do attitude with a high work ethic and goal-oriented approach.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
About ActiveFence
ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, and more.
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 300 people worldwide, and has contributed to the online safety of billions of users across the globe.