Senior Software Engineer, Level Home
Platform
Invisible smart locks
Job no longer available
Invisible smart locks
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To put people before technology and home before smart.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for technical leaders who can break down these ambiguous problems, design elegant solutions, and drive them from prototype to production
- While we prefer to focus on competencies as opposed to specific titles, you will likely be a better fit for this position if you've already had meaningful experience in a Senior Software Engineering role with a focus on backend
- Technical expertise: Demonstrate proficiency in designing, building, and operating scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems. Expertise in real-time data processing, event-driven architectures, and security is essential
- Software engineering skills: Extensive experience in building and maintaining robust production systems. Proficient in Golang or Python, with a preference for expertise in both. Well-versed in cloud-native technologies and microservices architectures
- Exceptional communicator: Exhibit the ability to clearly articulate complex technical details and trade-offs, ensuring effective collaboration across diverse teams
- User-centric design philosophy: Show a strong commitment to developing solutions that focus on user needs, significantly enhancing usability and overall satisfaction
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer on the Platform Team, you will tackle complex system design challenges to build the backbone of our platform
- You'll design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant services that process high-volume real-time data, ensure synchronization across hundreds of thousands of IoT devices, and deliver seamless user experiences to hundreds of thousands of residents and property managers
- Designing APIs that model device traits and capabilities in a way that is intuitive for developers to work with and easy to extend to new devices
- Building a real-time notification service that can handle spiky traffic patterns without compromising on latency
- Crafting efficient data pipelines to process and derive insights from massive data event streams
- Implementing secure communication protocols and authentication mechanisms for IoT devices
- You'll collaborate closely with other engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define the future of our platform
- You'll see the impact of your work almost immediately, thriving in an environment that values adaptability while maintaining high standards of reliability
- Architect and lead: Design and evolve the architecture of our core platform services, focusing on scalability, reliability, performance, and maintainability. Lead the technical roadmap from conception to implementation
- Solve challenging problems: Address complex issues in distributed systems that handle real-time data processing at a scale of hundreds of events per second, device synchronization, and IoT security. Ensure the robustness and resilience of all services
- Write high-quality code: Develop clean, efficient, and well-tested code. Contribute to shared libraries and set coding standards for excellence
- Collaborate and communicate: Engage with cross-functional teams to precisely define requirements, explore technical possibilities, and deliver high-impact features. Communicate your designs and decision-making process clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Own and deliver: Take full ownership from design through deployment to ongoing operation, making informed, data-driven decisions and adapting based on operational feedback
- Uplevel the team: Mentor and develop junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous improvement, and psychological safety
Our take
Level Home sets out to make home security easier than ever before with its multi-mode smart locks. It offering boasts two main selling points - the versatility of its use cases, and elegance of design.
The product certainly is versatile, and can be operated by key, touch, code, voice and app. Locks can be set to open and close at specific times, or you can send people one-off unlocks via the app. The products have been lauded for the design, too, with multiple award wins and gaining frequent comparisons to Apple.
The digital home security market is developing quickly, which gives Level Home plenty of growing room. It will, however, have to compete with legacy players like Yale who are modernising their offerings to adapt. That said, Level Home is steps ahead, has raised impressive funds and made strategic integrations - so the future bodes well for this company.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$71m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $171m
Company HQ
Centennial, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Ken Goto
(Co-Founder & CTO)Former Product Unit Manger at Microsoft, Director of Product Development at Starbucks, Senior Director of Engineering at Apple, and Co-founder and CTO of Tripshare.
John Martin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked as Group Program Manager at NASA, Project unit Manager at Microsoft, Senior VP of Product at Loudeye, and VP of Digital Music at Starbucks.
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