Wattpad's vision is to entertain & connect the world through webnovel stories. Since 2006, we've been on a mission to use the power of community & technology to unleash the full potential of stories to the world. Representing a tapestry of cultures & languages, people around the world come to Wattpad every month to share & discover stories they can't find anywhere else. Come build the future of entertainment & storytelling with our global team, & 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 & users to discover, create, & share stories. With over 24 million creators & ~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 Core Platforms team. You'll get the opportunity to create & work on the backend platform & systems that power Wattpad. The purpose of the team is to establish a robust set of centralized tools that backend developers can use to implement secure, performant, consistent code quickly to increase the productivity & happiness of Wattpad engineers. You will be creating new tools, defining architectural best practices & creating frameworks for engineers to follow. Our technology creates capabilities to understand stories & users & accelerates our ability to innovate at Wattpad.

Wattpad runs on a large distributed system that handles 45k requests every second. You'll be assisting in modernizing our backend platform & systems which currently include our monolith, microservices & backend infrastructure. Our monolith is written in PHP & backed by S3, Redis, Memcache, MySQL & Cloudflare. Our microservices are written in Go & are backed by S3, DynamoDB & MySQL. At this scale, caching is paramount so we have multiple terabytes of data across memcached, redis & groupcache.