[Remote] Lead Messaging Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The company is building a digital home for the global Muslim community, centered on a private messaging application that will expand into payments, commerce, and media. The Senior Messaging Engineer will work hands-on across the React Native app and Go backend to improve the existing product, scale it internationally, and solve complex real-time messaging and reliability challenges.

Responsibilities

• We're looking for a Senior Messaging engineer to join our existing team and help take us to global scale
• It's hands-on: you'll work across the React Native app and the Go backend, improving the product we already have and getting it ready for serious international growth
• The role is heavily hands-on across React Native and Go. You’d be working on things like real-time messaging, offline sync, message ordering and retries, push notifications, multi-device sessions, encryption, media, and eventually voice and video
• Need someone who has dealt with the hard problems that come with messaging at scale: flaky mobile connections, delivery guarantees, concurrent connections, synchronization, reliability, and debugging production issues

Skills

• A senior engineer
• The role is heavily hands-on across React Native and Go
• Need someone who has dealt with the hard problems that come with messaging at scale: flaky mobile connections, delivery guarantees, concurrent connections, synchronization, reliability, and debugging production issues
• Especially interested in people who have worked on an actual messenger, communication platform, or other real-time product

Benefits

• Remote founding-team environment
• A lot of ownership and the opportunity to have a real impact on the technical direction

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