[Wattpad] Senior Backend Engineer (Payment and Ads Platforms)

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. 

On the Payment and Ads Platforms team, you’ll build and maintain scalable, extensible, secure and observable payment services that power our paywalls, subscription offerings and virtual coin system. In the Ads domain, you’ll be working to consolidate ads logic as a backend platform that provides a single source of truth to our AN, iOS and web clients. The code you work on will have a direct impact on Wattpad’s users and bottom line. As part of the team, you’ll share ownership of our success and the direction of payment services that support our 35M+ monthly engaged users.

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.

Your engineering career and happiness are incredibly important to us, so we are always finding new ways to level up your skills. We believe in a team culture that enables empowered engineers to fix problems in the way that they see fit.