Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Syndio
Backend
$180-210k
+ equity
Pay transparency compliance solutions
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Pay transparency compliance solutions
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-210k
+ equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help companies eradicate workplace inequities and ensure every employee is valued for who they are and what they contribute to their company's' success.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years building and operating backend systems in production
- Deep comfort with Go and Python, with strong experience building concurrent, high-performance systems
- Strong database fundamentals with Postgres and relational ORMs, including query optimization and schema migration strategies
- Experience building and maintaining event-driven architectures with Kafka
- Expertise designing production APIs across REST, GraphQL, or gRPC
- Hands-on experience with cloud environments (GCP and/or AWS), Infrastructure as Code via Terraform, and continuous delivery via GitHub Actions
- Operational mindset: familiarity with observability, distributed tracing, and metrics tooling in Datadog
- Strong written communication to author design docs and lead clear PR reviews
- Own a technical domain with light supervision: propose direction in writing with clear specs, take review, ship, and carry the pager for what you shipped
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Senior or Staff level Backend Engineer to join our core platform engineering group. In this high-autonomy role on a focused team, you will design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed systems that power our core backend services. You will own systems end-to-end - from API design and data modeling to deploying resilient infrastructure and monitoring performance in production
- Design, ship, and operate core distributed microservices written in Go and Python
- Build real-time event streaming and data processing pipelines using Kafka
- Architect performant, flexible API interfaces across REST, GraphQL, and gRPC protocols
- Design efficient schemas and optimize query performance for relational storage using Postgres and modern ORMs
- Provision, maintain, and scale cloud infrastructure across GCP and AWS using Terraform and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure high reliability, low latency, and operational visibility across backend systems using Datadog
- Role Progession:
- First 30 days: Onboard into our development workflow, master core platform architecture, and ship your first feature
- First 60 days: Independently own sub-systems, optimize Postgres/ORM data paths, and manage cloud infrastructure updates via Terraform
- First 90 days: Lead the design and implementation of a major event-driven or API capability end-to-end and take on-call responsibilities for platform services
Application process
- Recruiter Screen (25 min)
- Meet the Hiring Manager (30 min)
- Technical Discussion – Systems & Data Architecture (60 min)
- Practical Coding & API Design Exercise Review (60 min)
- Product Interview (30 min)
- Executive Interview (30 min)
Our take
As companies are making greater commitments to paying and treating their employees more equitably, Syndio offers them an analytics-driven platform that enables them to more easily measure, achieve, and maintain this. The startup counts a number of Fortune 500 companies amongst its customers, including American Airlines, Salesforce, and Nordstrom.
Workplace equity is about much more than just boosting brand reputation. Recruitment and staff retention, company culture, and business performance have all been shown to improve with better DE&I results. Therefore, the draw of Syndio’s offering is quite clear - enabling businesses to convert verbal promises into measurable, provable outcomes.
Syndio’s growth since its 2016 launch has been impressive, with funding secured in 2022 allowing it to ramp up operations and scaling efforts. It also joined the London Stock Exchange Issuer Services Marketplace, becoming a trusted third-party service provider for listed companies, which gives it a chance to serve yet more impressive clients.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2022
$50m
SERIES C
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $132.8m
Company benefits
- Best medical plans on the market (90% employee coverage, 50% dependents)
- Life & Disability paid by the company
- Stock options
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- 401(k) option
- Access to Talkspace online therapy
Leadership
Maria Colacurcio
(CEO)Co-founded and was VP of Marketing at digital work collaboration platform Smartsheet. Co-founded and is a Board Member at Fair Pay Workplace. Has worked in managerial and directorial roles at Starbucks and Microsoft, and founded educators' professional development foundation Ideas Ignited.
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