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About the Role
Hapiko, a Spin Master company, is seeking an individual to own the backend systems for Stickerbox, a voice-activated sticker printer for kids. This role involves managing the real-time connection layer, API, job pipeline, and cloud infrastructure, ensuring the system remains fast, safe, and affordable as it scales globally.
Responsibilities
- Own the API and job queues that every sticker request runs through.
- Keep the real-time connection layer healthy and reliable, partnering with the firmware engineer.
- Tune and extend autoscaling to handle traffic spikes, partnering with the ML Serving engineer.
- Mature observability, including metrics, logs, tracing, and alerts.
- Build cost instrumentation to track expenses for requests, models, and services.
- Own release engineering for server-side services, including safe deploys, database migrations, and fast rollback.
- Partner with the Trust & Safety engineer on abuse prevention, device security, and privacy.
- Share on-call duties and work to reduce system-related pages over time.
Requirements
- Depth in Python and PostgreSQL.
- Elixir experience, or a strong interest in learning it.
- Experience owning production infrastructure end-to-end.
- Experience scaling a queue-driven or real-time system through significant traffic growth.
- Comfort with being paged for owned systems and working to minimize pages.
Skills
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Elixir
- API development
- Queue-driven systems
- Real-time systems
- Autoscaling
- Observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts)
- Cost instrumentation
- Release engineering
- Database migrations
- Rollback procedures
- Abuse prevention
- Device security
- Privacy for kids' products
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $136,700 to $182,300 Per Annum
Benefits
- Growth and Career Opportunities
- Flexible Work Hours
- Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
- Comprehensive Benefits
- Other fun Perks!
About the Company
- Spin Master is a leading global children's toy, entertainment, and digital gaming company.
- Our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity, and innovation drives our industry leadership.
- Hapiko makes Stickerbox, a voice-activated sticker printer for kids.
- Hapiko is a Spin Master company, pairing a small, senior engineering team with the reach of a large toy company.
- Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.
- Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization with opportunities for impactful decision-making.
- We have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers.
Equal Opportunity
- Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.
- Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes.
- Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.