Backend Software Engineer

**See yourself at Twilio**:
Join the team as Twilio's next Backend Software Engineer L2- Channels.

**Who we are & why we're hiring**:
Although we're headquartered in San Francisco, we have presence throughout South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. We're on a journey to becoming a global company that actively opposes racism and all forms of oppression and bias. At Twilio, we support diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business.

**About the job**:
Twilio is growing rapidly and our mission is to power the future of communications. To keep pace with evolving communication channels, we are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Channels team in the US, who is passionate about designing, developing, deploying and operating software solutions at scale, and wants to help Twilio deliver the best user experience for next-generation communications. Channels team builds the core message passing services to power Twilio's Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and other messaging providers. To help build one of the fastest growing products at Twilio, you will be developing a complex distributed platform in Java and will be concerned with availability, throughput, latency, and data integrity. At the core are cloud technologies that enable deployment and management of computing resources globally.

**Responsibilities**:
In this role, you'll:

- Collaborate with a world class geographically distributed team and brainstorm product ideas with product managers, design, and engineers.
- Build highly scalable and distributed services
- Build internal and public REST APIs and Event based systems used by all internal and external Twilio customers
- Constantly improve services that power Twilio's top products and also generate significant revenue
- Truly own the product you work on. Be responsible for SLA, oncall, incident resolution, customer feedback and participate in blameless post-incident reviews to make our products better.
- Demonstrate strong engagement in the team setting

**Qualifications**:
Required:

- Solid computer science fundamentals - Data structures and algorithms.
- 2+ years of software development experience in at least one object-oriented language such as Java, C++, C# or others.
- Experience designing, implementing, and integrating with REST APIs.
- Experience building and supporting mission critical, performant user-facing systems.
- Experience working with AWS or other cloud provider services.
- Experience working with highly scalable large distributed systems, relational databases like MySQL, data pipeline systems, frameworks to build high-performance RESTful web services.

**Location**:
This role will be remote, and based in **Colombia, South America.**

**Travel**:
We prioritize connection and opportunities to build relationships with our customers and each other. For this role, approximately 5% travel is anticipated to help you connect in-person in a meaningful way.

**What We Offer**:
There are many benefits to working at Twilio, including, in addition to competitive pay, things like generous time-off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more. Offerings vary by location.

**Twilio thinks big. Do you?**:
We like to solve problems, take initiative, pitch in when needed, and are always up for trying new things. That's why we seek out colleagues who embody our values — something we call Twilio Magic. Additionally, we empower employees to build positive change in their communities by supporting their volunteering and donation efforts.

If this role isn't what you're looking for, please consider other open positions.