Senior Back-End Developer, Gorgias

Data Streaming

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SQL
Python
Java
Kafka
Spark
Flink
Senior level
Paris

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2 days a week in office

Gorgias

eCommerce customer support helpdesk

Open for applications

Gorgias

eCommerce customer support helpdesk

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsCustomer serviceSaaS

Open for applications

Salary not provided
SQL
Python
Java
Kafka
Spark
Flink
Senior level
Paris

More information about location

2 days a week in office

201-500 employees

B2BInternal toolsCustomer serviceSaaS

Company mission

We believe that next version of commerce should be more open and anyone should be able to be a part of it, as a merchant or a customer. We believe decentralized commerce is better for everyone.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years experience in data streaming applications, preferably with Apache Flink. Experience with other technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Samza or Twister2 is also accepted
  • You have at least one year of experience with Apache Flink and Kafka
  • You are comfortable working with Java, Python and SQL
  • Significant experience with event-driven systems and eventual consistency patterns
  • Experience with high-traffic applications and continuous development/deployment
  • You care about working on applications that are putting the customer's needs first and you thrive in a fast-paced and distributed environment. You are comfortable with working with a product team, providing feedback and suggesting new ideas
  • In ideal, you’ve built on top of integrations with common SaaS billing, invoicing, payment processors, and accounting software like Stripe

What the job involves

  • You will be part of the Growth team as backend engineer
  • Design, implement, and scale event-driven solutions for the company's main models allowing usage-based pricing, reactive event notifications, and triggers
  • Develop robust and scalable flows to support user and customer journeys on the platform (e.g: Shopper buying timelines, merchant should be billed exactly once for the right amount)
  • Put in place monitors, metrics, and end-to-end tests to guarantee API and flow SLOs are up to Gorgias’ standards
  • Improve and enhance the customer journey from landing on the signup page, until renewing their contract every year, taking into account Gorgias’ customers specificities, their business, and their needs as they grow and navigate across our prices
  • Always anticipate, detect, and block fraud at all levels, whether it is by blocking account creation, plan selection, or access to specific features. This team acts as a watchdog against always-evolving patterns and new fraud techniques
  • Build and maintain data streaming pipelines and flows serving business use cases such as :
  • Deduplicate billing events according to custom, time window based, stream processing logic
  • Usage-based billing for all products accros Gorgias
  • Reactive flow (customer purchase, plan change, trigger subscription…)
  • Auto-upgrade and auto-downgrade of plans based on usage
  • Lead and mentor other senior ICs on data streaming applications
  • Design APIs and models in collaboration with senior ICs to enable more event-driven features putting always focus on the quality of the data and the consistency of actions taken
  • Define a monitoring strategy to prevent and fight fraud, collaborating with a security team when required

Our take

With the surge in online shopping, eCommerce merchants are increasingly prioritizing customer communications to enhance the overall shopping experience. This heightened emphasis puts greater pressure on support teams to promptly and accurately address customer inquiries.

Gorgias offers an all-encompassing customer support helpdesk equipped with artificial intelligence tools tailored for customer service teams. The platform allows eCommerce businesses to streamline responses to frequently asked questions through a single application. By automating these responses, support agents can allocate more time to engaging in meaningful and profitable interactions with customers, thereby potentially driving sales.

Catering to over 10,000 stores, including prominent brands like Princess Polly, Steve Madden, and Marine Layer, Gorgias faces competition from established players like Zendesk, Freshdesk, and HelpScout. Despite this, the company has experienced notable growth, expanding its presence across the US, Europe, and Australia. Along with funding that will fuel the development of its Automation Add-on feature, aimed at providing customers with instant answers to alleviate support workload.

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Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

19% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

May 2024

$29m

SERIES C

Aug 2022

$30m

SERIES C

Total funding: $101.4m

Company benefits

  • 60th and above percentile in compensation
  • Health coverage
  • Generous Equity Package
  • Company Offsites
  • Ergonomic setup at your service + 700$ for your home workstation
  • 16-week parental leave, including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
  • Daily catered lunch
  • 5 Weeks of Vacation
  • Retirement Benefits
  • Fully Stocked Kitchen
  • 3 weeks of Paid Sick Leave
  • $2,000 learning/professional development stipend

Company values

  • Maximise your impact
  • Customer first
  • Be 100% honest
  • Strive for excellence
  • Take EXTREME ownership

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Former Web Developer at Gymglish, Eau de Web, Innobyte and Liquid Studios.

Former Product Manager at Work4 and Business Developer at Scalr. MA in Management from HEC Paris.

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