Senior Backend Engineer, Customer.io
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$150-175k
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Automated marketing messaging platform
Job no longer available
Automated marketing messaging platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$150-175k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower marketers to create thoughtful messages.
Role
Who you are
- A track record of delivering performant and scalable distributed applications on cloud infrastructure, preferably in Go but many of our engineers have succeeded while picking it up on the job
- Experience working with customers and applying a deep understanding of their needs to produce timely solutions to their real-world problems
- A collaborative mindset backed by excellent communication skills and a desire to help us make great decisions in an empathetic and respectful way
- Not being afraid to fail, take risks, and ask for help
- Comfort working in UNIX environments and applying modern collaborative development practices
- Experience in working with RDB systems, preferably MySQL
- Preferably based in North/South American time zones
- Preferably over 7 years of relevant experience
What the job involves
- Be a model and mentor for writing well-architected, well-tested and easy to understand services in Go
- Apply your unique perspective to help us define and build the next generation of features and infrastructure needed to help our customers and our company to flourish
- Work with our tech support teams to diagnose operational issues and help our customers to achieve their goals with our product
- Take an active role in a friendly supportive team that encourages you and the entire company to grow as individuals, professionals and teams
- Mentor your coworkers through code review, pair programming, team collaboration, and training to help improve our collective knowledge and best practices together
- Be part of a small team of developers that value high-quality software, practice continuous improvement, inspire collaboration, and believe in rapid iterative development
- Bring your technical expertise to solve hard problems, adapt to change as we rapidly grow, and leverage new technologies and best practices
Our take
Many businesses struggle with achieving their marketing goals because they send impersonal messages that fail to engage potential customers effectively. Customer.io aims to change this by offering a marketing automation tool that enables companies to send highly targeted messages to specific audiences, enhancing both retention and conversion rates.
Customer.io sets itself apart from competitors like Klaviyo and Braze by leveraging real-time behavioural data and advanced segmentation, This allows marketers to target individuals based on personal attributes and web history, making their messages more relevant and impactful.
In January 2022, Customer.io expanded its offerings by launching a mobile software development kit for iOS and Android and introducing new integrations with major data warehouse providers, such as Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery. Following a successful funding round, the company is on its way to accelerating product innovation and expanding its team, aiming for continuous growth and success in the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
104% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$5m
SEED
Mar 2017
$3.4m
SEED
Total funding: $9.9m
Company benefits
- Health & Wellness: We pay 100% medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance premiums for you AND your family
- Health Lifestyle Reimbursement: Up to $1,500 USD annually to be used for your healthy living needs, including gym membership, exercise equipment, and health applications
- Unlimited PTO: We recommend about 20 vacation days (in addition to holidays and sick days) so that you can unwind, unplug, and recharge
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: For birth, adoption, or foster care
- 401k Retirement Matching: up to 5% dollar-for-dollar match to retirement contributions
- Home Office Set Up: Up to $1,500 USD to help you get your home office set up, so you can do your best work
- Remote Work Stipend: $250 USD per month allowance to cover the costs of internet, cell phone plans, and other remote work costs
- Co-Working Space Reimbursement: Up to $300 USD per month for those times you’d prefer to work in a co-working environment
- Professional Development Budget: Up to $2,000 USD reimbursement per year to use on conferences, books, and seminars that help you develop your skills professionally
- One Month Paid Sabbatical: After five years to treat yourself to a vacation, or spend however you choose
- Company travel: Opportunities to meet in-person with your peers
Company HQ
Nob Hill, Portland, OR
Leadership
Colin Nederkoorn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Extensive experience in Product Management. Most recently, they were Product Manager at LendingTree for 1 year and then Head of Product at ChallengePost for 2 years.
John Allison
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Worked in various roles in Software Engineering since 2014. Previous Software Engineer at Gilt Groupe for 1 year and then became Head of Engineering at ChallengePost.com for 2 years.
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