Scala Backend Engineer, Kaizo
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Workforce management platform
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Workforce management platform
1-20 employees
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More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
Kaizo's mission is to revolutionize customer service workforces through performance evaluation, actionable insights, QA, and gamification.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of professional experience building backend services using a server side programming languages, preferably Scala, Java, Python; willingness to learn Scala
- Experience with streaming data processing (familiar with backpressure, message queues like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Experience writing microservices. Our services are RESTful and event-driven
- Experience working within cross-functional teams, collaborating with Product Managers, design and UX
- BS/Masters degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Kaizo aims to actively guide employees towards achieving their goals and making an impact at their companies
- We are building a performance development platform for customer support teams that leverages gamification and AI to improve operational efficiency, elevate teams' performance and retention with actionable goals. We are a product-led, fast-growing SaaS company with a diverse team and a globally active customer base
- Kaizo is leveraging gamification and machine learning to make the daily work experience for customer support agents more engaging, fun and productive
- We run a microservice-based stream processing platform which processes 200+ million events every day using Akka Streams and Kafka
- Our services are deployed on a modern cloud infrastructure and feed data into various data stores
- Our systems are designed to be reactive, e.g. responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven
- Developing new features and enhancements in a fast-paced startup environment
- Designing and building RESTful APIs and streaming services to be consumed by UI and other backend services
- Writing highly reusable, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code following functional programming principles
- Implementing OWASP security best practices to ensure secure application development, including input validation, authentication, and protection against common vulnerabilities
- Working collaboratively with product managers and engineers to scope requirements and architect robust solutions
- Optimizing application performance and troubleshooting issues across our microservices architecture
- Participating in code reviews and mentoring team members to maintain high code quality standards
- Managing data processing pipelines and ensuring reliable event streaming with Kafka and Akka Streams
- Contributing to system architecture decisions and technical strategy discussions
- Monitoring application health, investigating incidents, and implementing reliability improvements
- Staying current with Scala ecosystem developments and evaluating new technologies for adoption
- Analyzing problems and proactively suggesting improvements to our products with freedom to build innovative solutions
Application process
- Do you want to help us understand what makes you the best match for this role? Feel free to send us a 2-minute video motivation
Our take
Striving to constantly improve the performance of a customer support team is an essential value for a business, but doing so requires coaching based on actionable insights. Although software that measures performance analytics and produces such insights exists, this often requires staff to work in a particular manner, and without incentive, this is often avoided.
Kaizo provides a Workforce Performance Management (WPM) platform specializing in improving customer support teams through gamification, encouraging staff to track their sales success through "missions". Through this self-tracking approach, businesses are able to capture coachable moments for staff, integrate QA into work processes, and save time on manual reporting.
WPM platforms are nothing new, but Kaizo has taken a unique approach by tapping into the fulfilling feeling that comes with gamification, using this to encourage self-reporting and workflow improvement, whilst providing the data for coachable performance analytics. The company claims that this method allows businesses to improve their customer satisfaction rates by 5%, reduce resolution time by 60%, and save 4-8 hours on reporting every week.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2022
$6.8m
SERIES B
Jun 2021
$4m
SEED
Total funding: $14.4m
Company benefits
- Personal development program
- Mentorship program
- Visa sponsorship
- Stock options
- Team activities
- Referral bonus
- Workations
- Free lunch
- Remote work
- Home office setup
- Flexible hours
- Open holiday policy
Company HQ
Weesperbuurt en Plantage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leadership
Christoph Auer-Welsbach
(Co-Founder)Four and a half years experience as Board Chair & Investor for DAN.COM. Co-founded Kaizo as co-CEO in 2018.
Dominik Blattner
(Co-Founder)Over four years experience as Ambassador for City AI. Co-founded Kaizo as co-CEO in 2018.
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