Backend Engineer, Proton
Drive
+ Stock Options
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
Be an early applicant
Encrypted email, drive, and VPN services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To fight for a better internet that is secure and private by default.
Role
Who you are
- We expect you to be customer-centric, continuously learning, passionate about technology and usability
- Effective teamwork, collaboration with Product, Technical design, APIs, and your team, and data-driven decision-making are essential aspects of this role
- Experience with PHP-based entry-points to a back-end software stack
- Experience building scalable solutions
- Experience with profiling methods and tools
- Solid understanding of SQL (MySql preferred)
- Solid understanding of security best practices
- Solid understanding of HTTP/REST, including both developing and consuming Web-based APIs
- High-level understanding of cryptography concepts such as key exchange and the difference between symmetric and asymmetric encryption
Desirable
- Operational experience such as SRE or on-call, demonstrating ability to diagnose and troubleshoot complex problems for critical systems
- Experience with Docker or similar containerization technologies
- Experience with metrics graphing/analysis toolkits such as Grafana and OpenTelemetry
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience with OpenAPI specs or other API documentation frameworks
What the job involves
- As a Back-end Engineer on the Drive team, you will play a crucial role in developing Proton Drive
- You are an adept at turning technical complexities into seamless user experiences
- Develop new features: Developing, deploying and supporting high-quality user experiences within Proton Drive, including feature development and implementation
- Collaboration: Work closely with backend, product owners, designers, QA, and other engineers to take initiatives from ideation to completion
- Code review and optimization: Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality, maintainability, and performance optimization
- Testing: Develop and implement comprehensive testing strategies, including unit tests and integration tests, to ensure the reliability of core libraries
- Management: Break down large initiatives into smaller milestones to gather stakeholder feedback quickly, allowing us to course-correct immediately
Our take
Proton is a Geneva-based startup founded by former CERN worker and internet privacy advocate Andy Yen. It provides internet users with encrypted webmail, calendar, drive, and VPN services.
Proton maintains its pro-privacy ethos using a Swiss VPN, protected by strict Swiss privacy laws. In essence, it has established a connection between the personal and the political, smartly utilising the country’s national laws to benefit people and organisations globally. Proton also funds charities and movements such as the World Wide Web Foundation and Netblocks, further cementing it as an influential NGO.
Perhaps Proton’s most important quality is its determination to maintain independence from advertisers and companies. Originally founded on donations, Proton has funded itself via grants rather than venture capital so that all of its customer's data is never at risk of being mined. One effect of this is that to keep up with the increasing competition in the data privacy sector, Proton has expanded its services to allow more cross-selling and simultaneously has more products to offer, such as drive and calendar privacy.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- These vary by location and type of contract but expect support on your vacation, parental leave, refreshment if working from the office, learning and development opportunities, equity for shared success, flexible working hours and remote work, company events, and team-building activities.
Company values
- People first - Whether serving the Proton community or the broader world, Proton puts people first. it will always put making a positive impact before profits. Proton is independent, neutral, employee-controlled, and does not have venture capital investors.
- Do what is right - Proton believes doing what is right is a competitive advantage. Proton's culture empowers it to do what is right and to do work that it can truly be proud of. It aims to be a tech company with a conscience.
- Science is our foundation - Proton was founded by scientists, and science is part of its DNA and culture. It believes in technical excellence, rigor, and peer review. Integrity, honesty, and transparency are core values.
- We believe in privacy - Proton believes that privacy is a fundamental right and an essential part of being human. Without it, there can be no freedom. Privacy is a deeply held belief that guides all that Proton does.
- Together it’s possible - Proton believes in collective strength. Its mission can only be accomplished by working together with its community. Together, Proton is building a better internet for future generations.
Company HQ
Plan-les-Ouates, GE
Articles
Leadership
Andy Yen
(CEO)Previously PhD Researcher at CERN
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