Backend Engineer, Swapcard
AI-powered virtual & hybrid event platform
Open for applications
AI-powered virtual & hybrid event platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
Swapcard's mission is to empower human connections and enhance the way people network.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3+ years in software development with a strong foundation in computer science fundamentals such as algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
- Programming Skills: Advanced knowledge of at least one backend programming language, such as Node.js (TypeScript) or Go, with the ability to design and deploy high-quality APIs (GraphQL or REST)
- Database Expertise: Proficiency with both relational and non-relational databases, including MariaDB, MongoDB, Postgres, with a focus on optimization and performance tuning
- Problem-Solving: Skilled at maintaining and improving legacy systems, evaluating tradeoffs between refactor, rebuild, or buy decisions
- Collaboration: Outstanding communicator who is proactive, adaptable, and self-motivated, with the ability to work asynchronously across multiple time zones
- Microservices Architecture: Proven ability to operate, troubleshoot, and scale systems built with a microservices architecture using tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, and GRPC/Protobuf for communication
Desirable
- Cloud & Orchestration: Experience with AWS and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes
- Advanced Messaging: Familiarity with message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
- Observability: Experience using tools like Prometheus, Loki, Pyroscope & Grafana for data visualization
- Testing: Experience with end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join one of our squads dedicated to building and enhancing the core systems that drive Swapcard’s capabilities
- You’ll play a key role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable solutions for event organizer; while collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Joining any of these squads means contributing to impactful projects that directly shape the future of Swapcard’s platform
- Matchmaking Squad: Focused on optimizing meeting functionalities and advancing the hosted buyer program to deliver a premium, Grade A experience for participants
- Builder Squad: Dedicated to developing a robust website builder that enhances event organizers’ customization options while significantly reducing setup time and effort
- Integration Squad: Dedicated to building a robust Connector Hub, empowering event organizers to seamlessly integrate their preferred toolchains with Swapcard
- Design, develop, and deliver high-quality, efficient, and robust backend solutions
- Actively participate in coding, system design, code reviews, and troubleshooting production issues
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers to devise optimal engineering solutions
- Continuously enhance system performance and scalability
Application process
- Our thorough interview process aims to identify exceptional talent to advance our mission while offering you a chance to explore your career potential at Swapcard
- 1. Screening Interview with a recruiter from our people team
- 2. A remote exercise to demonstrate and assess your skills
- 3. Manager review with your future reporting manager
- 4. Leadership review with one of our department leaders
- 5. Reference check conducted by our people team
- 6. Offer
Our take
Events platform Swapcard is a major player in the events software industry, and like many others, it has had to adapt fast to the 2020 spike in demand for virtual events. It did so impressively, with an end-to-end solution that includes registration, engagement, and networking tools, as well as some novel details like an AI-powered guest matchmaking service.
Acquisitions of MapsPeople and Avolio have seen Swapcard deepening its suite of tools, which is reflective of Swapcard’s broader gamble: that as events persist in a combination of digital, hybrid, and in-person formats, customers are looking for a single tech provider capable of handling all aspects. This may not, however, be a given. Rival events platform Grip pulled ahead of Swapcard in terms of funding over recent years, which it credits to a consumer preference for its plug-in-and-play networking features. So complementary, not comprehensive, events tools were Grip's route to gaining traction in the transforming sector.
Nevertheless, customers like SXSW, Expo Dubai 2020, and Informa are among the high-profile enterprise clients pursuing Swapcard’s services. In a market expected to grow fairly rapidly over the next few years, these players may in fact provide a more valuable vote of confidence than its rivals’ influx of VC investment.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2018
$4.2m
EARLY VC
Apr 2015
$0.6m
ANGEL
Total funding: $4.8m
Company benefits
- Remote-first policy with offices in Paris, USA, UAE, CA, UK, & IN 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 🇦🇪 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 🇸🇬
- Fast-growing startup with many opportunities for growth 🌱
- Open-minded culture that appreciates differences 👽
- Feedback driven, supportive & curious team with DIY mindset 🤔 🛠
- Family leave and remote work❤️ 🏡
- Team that seizes every opportunity to celebrate success 🕺🏼💃
- Learning support and sponsorship 📚
- Work-from-home budget 😌
- Generous paid time off program 🎁
- Team vacations to celebrate our achievements ✈️
Company values
- 📚 Curiosity: Rapid growth and evolution are the results of our endless quest for new knowledge and understanding. We’re interested in our peers and their concerns. Anything novel or innovative excites us
- 👽 Open-mindedness: Feedback and ideas can be exchanged freely, without being taken personally. We welcome Swapcardians of all sorts and learn from each other’s personal and professional experiences
- ✊🏾 Humanity: Empathy encourages a kind and down to earth environment where we all feel comfortable and free to be human. We never have to wear a mask or hide who we are
- 🎯 Resilience: We have a desire to win and don’t take no for an answer. We prefer the term “experiment” over “failure”. We are solution-oriented and find innovative approaches to succeed
- 🏋🏽♀️ Ambition: Nothing is impossible. We're always striving to get better, seize opportunities, and reach the top. We are encouraged to dream big and believe in ourselves
Company HQ
Porte-Saint-Denis, Paris, France
Articles
Leadership
Baptiste Boulard
(CEO)Previously a lawyer at VINCI Concessions and Allen & Overy. Current Member of the Digital Innovation Working Group at UFI.
Damien Courbon
(COO)Previously an Internal Consultant with Nutricia Medical Nutrition, and went on to work as a Financial Auditor with Deloitte.
Godefroy des Francs
(CPO)A Business Management and Finance graduate, who went on to hold various project and portfolio management positions, including at BNP Paribas.
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