Senior Software Engineer, Nylas
CA$130-170k
Productivity APIs for work automation
Open for applications
Productivity APIs for work automation
101-200 employees
Open for applications
CA$130-170k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help developers leverage communications data and build features that increase customer engagement, productivity, and retention.
Role
Who you are
- You should have an automation mindset, experience scaling software systems, and an emphasis on reliability
- You should also tend toward humbleness in your abilities and have an innate desire to pass knowledge onto others
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
- At least 4+ years of experience in backend development on high-impact projects
- Be a full-stack engineer with expertise in both backend and frontend development
- Have hands-on experience in building and maintaining applications, including both API and client-side implementations
- Experience developing and testing with Go and JavaScript
- Experience with microservices, distributed systems, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with modern database and storage (MySQL, NoSQL)
- Some experience with containers and related infrastructure (Docker and K8S)
- Some experience with Cloud Services (AWS or GCP is preferred)
What the job involves
- Our engineers build and optimize internal tooling and products to support feature engineering teams
- They provide reliable and resilient systems to address common engineering requirements, automate processes to make feature development faster and more efficient, and work to ensure performance system-wide
- They have deep technical expertise and provide implementation guidance to other teams
- Build and optimize internal services supporting RESTful APIs that handle billions of requests every day
- Shorten the test, release, and deployment verification feedback cycles
- Collaborate with your team and others to support deploying and maintaining services built in Go and Javascript
- Deploy virtualized, containerized, and functions-as-a-service applications in a multicloud environment
- Project platform and product needs to build tooling to accelerate future feature development
- Standardize the big data processing pipeline development stack
- Implement a standard observability framework across Nylas
- Improve the security of the platform by adding linting, scanning and pentest tools to the CI/CD pipeline
Application process
- Round 1: 60 minute Google Meet interview with the hiring manager
- Round 2: 60 minute technical assessment via Google Meet with a team member
- Round 3: Three (3) 45 minute Google Meet interviews with various team members (max 3 hours)
- During the various discussions, candidates selected to meet with us are strongly encouraged to not only discuss their knowledge, skills, experience, and abilities but also to showcase examples of their current or previous work. We expect you to clearly outline the "what," "why," and "how" behind your contributions
Our take
Nylas provides productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Over 200,000+ developers use their powerful suite of tools to quickly and securely build productivity features into their applications, resulting in 12 billion+ API requests per day.
The number of businesses using their platform is rapidly increasing due to the Nylas infrastructure generating huge operational savings through more productive, secure, and intelligently-automated development cycles.
The company has remained focused on scaling its integrated and productivity-driven developer experience as well as furthering its investment in disruptive technologies that automate workflows and seamlessly integrate technologies such as conversational AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and cross-system intelligent automation.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2021
$120m
SERIES C
Jun 2020
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $173m
Company benefits
- Retirement plans
- Wellness stipend
- Paid parental leave: 12 weeks parental leave (maternity & paternity)
- Annual learning & development perk
- Voting/Election PTO: 4 hours of paid time off to vote in person or volunteer at a polling place
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Customer Obsession - We create value for our customers because without our customers our company does not exist
- Creativity - We are creators. We are intrinsically motivated by the act of creation
- Velocity - We move with speed and direction
- Output-Focused - We value the results of our work, not the process
- Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging - We welcome people of all backgrounds and we value different viewpoints
- Open Communication - We speak our minds but we always do it with care for one another
- Trust - We trust one another to operate with the best interest of our customers and Nylas in mind
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Christine Spang
(Board Member & CTO)Previously worked as Principal Developer at Oracle for 1 year and as Laboratory Assistant at MIT for 1 month.
Gleb Polyakov
(CEO)Previously Operations Consultant at B&G International for 1 year and Crowdfunding Director at Parallax Creative for 3 years.
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