Senior Backend Engineer, Calm
$185.5-259.7k
This role is also eligible for equity
Wellness app for meditation and sleep
Be an early applicant
Wellness app for meditation and sleep
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$185.5-259.7k
This role is also eligible for equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make the world happier and healthier.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with the following languages/technologies/frameworks (or equivalents): Javascript/Typescript GoLang Docker Kubernetes Terraform AWS / GCP / GKE Relational DBs / SQL
- Experience with REST API-based microservices design
- Proven experience working effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment as part of a collaborative team
- Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and tackle challenging problems
- Experience providing accurate high-level estimates based on complexity and consistently delivering on time and with quality
- Consistently deliver on commitments through disciplined estimates and task breakdowns
- Proficiency in writing unit and integration tests in a CI/CD environment
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Provide high-quality code reviews centered on code quality and mentoring
- Ability to partner with leads across products to leverage institutional knowledge to solve complex problems
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- This role typically requires 8 years of related experience
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
Desirable
- Past experience building apps in highly controlled industries, i.e., healthcare
What the job involves
- The Senior Backend Software Engineer is a critical member of the Calm Engineering Team
- In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the backend systems that power our mobile and web applications
- You will work closely with a team of engineers, designers, product managers, and customers to ensure that our products are reliable, performant, and secure
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define project scope, and develop technical specifications
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems that are reliable, scalable, and secure
- Lead development and implementation of complex backend features and services, collaborating cross-functionally with QA, DevOps, PMs, and client engineers to ensure smooth development and deployment process
- Write high-quality, well-documented, and easily maintainable code that adheres to industry standard best-practices
- Ensure high test coverage for all code, including unit and integration tests
- Implement backend features with instrumentation and monitoring to detect system errors and performance issues
- Stay up-to-date on the latest backend technologies and trends
- Develop, mentor and train software engineers
Our take
Calm partners with international music and entertainment giants to create a web app dedicated to helping users achieve healthy sleep, relaxation and meditative practices. With over 100 million downloads, the company is firmly established as the world leader in the digital wellness landscape.
Born in 2012 following a chance meeting on a boat, co-founders Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith bring a robust entrepreneurial skill set to the table. Having both achieved early successes and mental stresses with previous ventures ‘Million Dollar Homepage’ and ‘Moshi Monsters’ respectively, they set out to make online mindfulness available to the mobile generation.
Since hitting unicorn status in 2019 with $88m in Series B funding, Calm has gone from strength-to-strength in a fiercely competitive market. According to analysis service Sensor Tower, over 5,000 meditation apps have been launched since 2015. Calm is banking on innovative partnerships with UMG (the world's largest music company), HBO Max and additions of stars like Stephen Fry, Sam Smith and Matthew McConaughey to keep them firmly in their number 1 spot.
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Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2020
$75m
SERIES C
Jul 2019
$27m
SERIES B
Total funding: $218m
Company benefits
- Investment & Growth: Calm can only grow if you do. We offer a great salary, equity, and 401(k).
- Health & Wellness: Health, dental, and vision package as well as monthly stipends for fitness routines.
- Time & Space: When we say PTO is Take What You Need, we really mean it.
- Parents & Kids: Your family is a vital part of our community too. That’s why we offer baby bonding leave to all full time employees.
- Home & Office: Your home office should be as functional and inspirational as your office office. We’ll give you a WFH stipend to help.
- Culture & Connection: Our calendar of (virtual) social events ensures you always feel part of, and close with, the team, no matter where you are.
Company values
- Growth mindset: We are innately curious. Wew know we will never know enough. We never stop learning, and reading, and sharing ideas
- Humble & Hungry: We want to change the world. We are driven by the potential Calm has to do that. We also understand the journey is a long one
- High EQ: We practice what we preach. We are mindful and inclusive of others, and each other. We champion empathy and compassion
- Results focused: We optimize for impact. We celebrate wins and learn from missteps. We never stop testing and iterating
- Resourceful: We roll up our sleeves. We look for simple solutions to complex problems. We embrace constraints
- Relentless: We are never complacent. We understand that speed matters. We move fast without breaking things
- Teamwork: We understand great teams need safety, clarity, meaning, dependability, and impact. We believe in the values of one, and the power of many
- Magic: We believe something truly magical happens when the right people come together at the right place, at the right time, with the right mindset
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Alex Tew
(Co-Executive Chairman)Alex founded Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005, before starting Pixelotto and PopJam. After a year as a Monkey Inferno Product Manager, he leveraged this entrepreneurial experience to co-found Calm in May 2012.
Michael Acton Smith
(Co-Executive Chairman)A serial entrepreneur Michael previously founded Firebox.com a gadget retailer and MindCandy, a children's game developer.
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