Senior Backend Engineer
at App Annie
Beijing, China

App Annie delivers data and insights to succeed in the app economy.

What can you tell your friends when they ask you what you do?

App Annie is on microservice architecture, and in the process of building a unified data warehouse. I worked for the fundamental part of microservice architecture, and we’re building the foundation of services based on unified data warehouse. It’s so challenging because I’m dealing with business on Petabytes of data and serving the customer needs from different industries. It’s so important because the whole App Annie delivery stack is built on top of my work.

How will you be doing this?

Design and build the microservices of App Annie to support business. Including but not limited to: authentication & permission, data queries & aggregations, parallelisms, cache, microservice framework & libraries etc.
Design and build reusable utils and tools to drive high development efficiency of the organization.
Optimize the end-to-end performance of microservices architecture.
Monitor the health of microservices and troubleshoot to solve production issues.
Create and maintain high quality design documents.
Maintain a good working relationship and collaborate with different teams effectively.
Become better at what you do every day.
What will you bring to the team?

3+ years experience in web backend development.
Experience in the following areas is a plus: microservice architecture; web development framework (e.g. Django / Flask); Python; OOD (Object-Oriented-Design); UML etc.
Familiarity with RDBMS and at least one NoSQL database. Familiarity with DB query optimization is a big plus.
Experience with framework or reusable component design is a big plus.
Contributing to open source projects is a big plus.
Understanding of high availability, scalability and concurrency management.
Very strong capacity of problem analysis and solving.
Fluent English is a plus.
Energy and creativity are key characteristics that describe you and the projects you lead. You make it happen. Boom!
You’re an app fanatic, positively curious and a technology enthusiast.
What are employees saying about App Annie?

App Annie is a great place for any engineer who wants to take challenges and grow fast, because it never stops striving for excellence.

What do we offer?

Competitive compensation.
All the tech tools you need to succeed.
Free lunch, snacks, fruit, good coffee and other delicious treats to keep you well fed.
16 days of paid leave, so long as you promise to come back!
Great social & labor insurance packages to fit your needs to ensure you’re happy and healthy.
Commuter benefits that make getting to and from work a breeze.
Employee referral bonuses so you’ll get the opportunity to work with friends (and get some extra cash in your pocket!).
2021 WFH Equipment Perk 2,830 CNY
Why choose App Annie?

App Annie is the industry’s most trusted mobile data and analytics platform. App Annie’s mission to help customers create winning mobile experiences and achieve excellence. The company created the mobile app data market and is committed to delivering the industry’s most complete mobile performance offering. More than 1,100 enterprise clients and 1 million registered users across the globe and spanning all industries rely on App Annie as the standard to revolutionize their mobile business. Being part of App Annie who fuels the ecosystem with information and insights, you will gain additional respect from the industry automatically. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with 12 offices worldwide.

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