Backend and DevOps Engineer

We build tech to understand and respond to misinformation. Our work aspires to scale civic efforts to misinformation response. This includes using machine learning to categorize and classify multilingual and multimedia content, detect hate speech; creating web scrapers for sourcing content from chat apps and social media in India; building realtime multiplayer games, and increasing the efficiency of fact checking work.

About The Role

The role involves implementing backend APIs and scaling up associated cloud infrastructure in an economical way to handle the traffic to our public facing products. We are also looking to automate the scaling and infrastructure management tasks.

Our Tech Stack

  • Kubernetes and Docker
  • AWS : EKS, EC2, S3, RDS (Postgres), Route53 and Cloudfront
  • Github Actions
  • Elixir, Javascript, Python

We embrace people who value their craft and if you fancy yourself as someone with a knack for systems programming and building web scale solutions, you would like working with us.

Experiences: 5+ years

Contract Type: The role will start with a three month contract period and might change to a long term retainer structure after that. The compensation will be market competitive.

Deadline: ASAP

About Tattle

  • Tattle is a FOSS project. All code is licensed under GPL, and data that is safe to open is opened under an open data license. You retain all rights to the work you do with us and aren't bound to prohibitive NDAs.

  • At Tattle, we value inter-disciplinary thinking and unconventional life experiences. We provide space to incorporate your unique learnings in all that we make.

  • We provide a stress free work environment. We have a flexible 8 hours workday policy, without any interruptions from us beyond that.

  • We are a fully remote team that communicates asynchronously.

We Value Diversity and Multiplicity of Experiences

To this end, we strongly encourage candidates, even if they feel they don't meet all the above listed criteria but find alignment with the project and are driven to learn, to apply.

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