Senior Software Engineer, Miro
Messaging
+ Equity for eligible roles
Visual workspace for innovation
Open for applications
Visual workspace for innovation
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity for eligible roles
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower teams to create the next big thing, powered by AI at every step of the way.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of backend development experience (Java 17, Kotlin, Spring / Spring Boot)
- At least 4+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems in production environments
- Strong understanding of event-driven architectures, async processing, and message-based systems
- Solid knowledge of high-load SaaS architecture, scalability, and reliability patterns
- Some experience with streaming/messaging platforms, notifications or feed-like systems (email, in-app, push, or similar)
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and production observability practices
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Messaging team
- The Messaging team owns Miro’s notification platform, ensuring users receive relevant, timely, and trustworthy notifications that help them stay informed and improve their Miro experience
- This includes email notifications, in-app notifications, and the underlying systems that power them
- Our mission sits at the intersection of product experience and platform reliability
- We enable Miro teams to communicate with users at the right moment, across channels, at scale - while avoiding noise, duplication, and overload
- By building robust, scalable, and observable messaging system, we help Miro teams drive retention, engagement and clarity for millions of users
- We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who will help us evolve and scale Miro’s messaging and notification capabilities
- You’ll work on high-throughput, event-driven systems that operate under strict reliability, latency, and correctness requirements
- The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with distributed systems, and a product mindset - understanding that every notification affects user trust
- You’ll take ownership of critical services, collaborate closely with Product and Platform teams, and help define stable, extensible interfaces that enable Miro teams to deliver meaningful user notifications safely and efficiently
- Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant backend services for email and in-app notifications
- Build and evolve event-driven, asynchronous pipelines that process high volumes of product and user events
- Create high-quality technical designs and write clean, maintainable, self-documented production code
- Ensure correctness, idempotency, deduplication, and delivery guarantees across notification flows
- Optimize performance, latency, and scalability while maintaining reliability under peak load
- Take long-term ownership of features and subsystems, including production health and evolution
- Collaborate with Product and Platform teams to deliver relevant and timely user notifications
Application process
- 01. Recruiter Screen:
- A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro
- 02. Hiring Manager:
- The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes
- 03. Skill Assesment:
- An interactive presentation to see your skills in action, based around a particular case study or business problem
- 04. Meet the Team:
- Here you will meet cross-functional stakeholders, and we will ask evidence-based questions to evaluate how well you align with the role and Miro's values and culture
- 05. Leadership Round:
- Meet a member of the leadership team to discuss Miro’s company values and share your vision for success at Miro
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Millions of employees worldwide have moved to remote working, but existing tools are holding back the potential for collaboration. Tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams already provide remote communication platforms to millions of users, but they generally compromise on features required to emulate the team collaboration experience.
Miro has created a platform that provides enterprise tools such as collaborative whiteboards and mind-map software into an accessible and integrated service. As opposed to providing an 'all-in-one' add on, Miro allows businesses to customize and integrate the tools and resources within their individual platform to cater to the team's specific requirements.
Miro’s initial strategy of offering free and discounted subscriptions and then moving to paid models has paid off. The platform currently has over 100M users and is trusted by enterprises such as VMware, Zendesk and Frog. And as part of its ongoing battle with Zoom, Miro acquired video-chat startup Around in 2022, to remain competitive in the market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$400m
SERIES C
Apr 2020
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $476.8m
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrey Khusid
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to Miro, they founded Vitamin Group specializing in digital technologies and multimedia projects.
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