[Wattpad] Backend Engineer

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 Backend Services team. You'll get the opportunity to create and work on the backend platforms that power Wattpad. If you have a passion for high-impact engineering, this is the place to be!  You will be asked to create a robust set of centralized systems that 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+ users to create and enjoy new stories.

Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 45k requests every second. Our microservices are written in Go and are backed by S3, DynamoDB and MySQL, while our monolith is written in PHP and backed by S3, Redis, Memcache, MySQL and Cloudflare. At this scale, caching is paramount so we have multiple terabytes of data across memcached, redis and groupcache.