[Wattpad] Engineer, Client Enablement Services

Wattpad’s vision is to entertain and connect the world through webnovel stories. Since 2006, we’ve been on a mission to use the power of community and technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Representing a tapestry of cultures and languages,  around the world come to Wattpad every month to share and discover stories they can’t find anywhere else. Come build the future of entertainment and storytelling with our global team, and write your next chapter with us!

Wattpad is part of the WEBTOON family of brands, the largest storytelling platform in the world that enables creators and users to discover, create, and share stories. With over 24 million creators and ~170 million active users per month, we are truly empowering creation by anyone, for everyone. To read more about our family of Brands, check out our website here. 

You will be joining the Client Enablement Services team. You'll get the opportunity to create and work on the platforms that power Wattpad, focusing on the Public APIs used by web and mobile and clients. If you have a passion for high-impact engineering and working across teams, this is the place to be! We have a strong team culture of collaboration in a number of domains key to the Wattpad experience. If you have enthusiasm for working on a platform that means a lot to millions of people around the world, we would be thrilled to haveyou join us.

You will be asked to create a robust set of centralized systems that other engineers can use to implement secure, performant, consistent code quickly to increase the productivity and happiness of Wattpad engineers. These systems will need reliable, resilient, secure, easy to operate, and cost-efficient. You will also help drive initiatives to extend how our platform will work for the future; enabling our 30M+ monthly active users to create and enjoy new stories.

Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 45k requests every second. Our Kubernetes-hosted microservices are written in Go and are backed by S3, DynamoDB and MySQL. We also have a core API gateway written in PHP and backed by S3, Redis, Memcache, MySQL and Cloudfront. At this scale, caching is paramount so we have multiple terabytes of data across memcached and redis.