Senior Backend Software Engineer, Paperless Post
$145-190k
Online events & invitations platform
Job no longer available
Online events & invitations platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$145-190k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To reimagine invitations through design and technology to help people connect at life’s memorable moments.
Role
Who you are
- Empathy for the people who worked on the code base before you
- A passion for building scalable software and architectures with our users in mind
- A knack at building scalable systems and experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, performance analysis, and/or large-scale data processing
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically about complex technical challenges and an ability to articulate solutions that makes sense for your team
- Strong understanding of frameworks and design patterns and working knowledge of AWS
- Knowledge of developing RESTful APIs and maintaining SLAs
- Proficiency in at least one statically typed language such as Golang, C or Java (preferably Golang)
- Experience in building and deploying services in a distributed environment; understanding of different service-to-service communication models and when to apply them
- Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
What the job involves
- Design and develop maintainable, reliable, and scalable enterprise-level, services-based software
- Champion and author architectural standards around the development of services in an SOA environment
- Define design patterns that ensure performance, scalability, operability, and maintainability and hold feature teams accountable to their correct use
- Investigate and implement scalable and sound service-oriented architectures that enable cross-functional teams to build, release, experiment iteratively, and detect and resolve production issues quickly
- Design and implement consistent, high-throughput, low-latency APIs while balancing trade-offs between consistency and availability
- Deploy regular code releases to production and test environments in Agile release cycles
Our take
Sending invitations to events can be tedious and time-consuming, and outsourcing design can be expensive too. Paperless Post solves this problem with its technology-led, design-first approach.
Paperless Post first launched in 2009, and since then it has become a clear market leader in a field cluttered with fairly simple design and printing tools. Part of its success stems from its early adoption of mobile phones as a platform - while initially optimized for desktop use the company worked hard to develop its platform for mobile users.
This has allowed Paperless Post to consolidate its growth in spite of market changes over the years. It will need to continue to develop its partnerships and technology in order to fend off new competitors, but its unique designs and understanding of communication trends indicate that the company is still ahead of the curve.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2018
$10m
SERIES E
Apr 2014
$25m
SERIES C
Total funding: $46.4m
Company benefits
- Six medical plans, three dental, and two vision
- Match on up to 4% of your 401k contributions
- $1,500 annual allowance for continuing education and learning and development
- Partnerships and company subsidies with leading wellness providers
- Our NYC canteen is stocked with yummy snacks, plus bagels and catered lunches on office days
- PTO policy starts at 20 rest and relaxation days for new employees and increases with tenure, with flexible time off for when life happens
- Earn a two-week sabbatical on your 5th anniversary, and three weeks on your 8th
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
James Hirschfeld
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014.
Alexa Hirschfeld
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Paperless Post in 2007 after graduating from Harvard. Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014.
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