Who is Recruiting from Scratch:

Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more.

About Our Client:

Our client is in the business of shaping the future of work. Their mission is to make the future of communication more collaborative, accessible, and productive for all.

Our client is growing fast, last year they recorded a total of over 150 million meeting minutes, announced a $50 million Series B and were included in Business Insider's 10 AI startups that raised the biggest Series A and B list. In addition, Adam Cheyer the cofounder of Siri, Larry Heck the cofounder of Cortana and Greg Holmes, the first head of sales at Zoom, joined our client as advisors.

The Role

Our client is seeking an experienced Staff Backend Engineer to join their engineering team. Members of the engineering team work collaboratively as a group to develop systems and infrastructure to serve the needs of their fast growing business. They are looking for staff-level backend engineers to lead initiatives to improve critical infrastructure for services, storage, and orchestration.

Responsibility:

• Take ownership and responsibility for building, shipping, and maintaining critical product features
• Design and scale core infrastructures, optimizing for long-term maintainability, performance, and reliability
• Improve monitoring, tracing, profiling, debugging, and deploying
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
• Lead technical discussions and help drive product decisions with product managers, designers and frontend engineers

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience in developing/architecting large scale Web services
• A Bachelors, Master or PhD in Computer Science or related fields from a top University
• Experience in databases, distributed systems, and backend performance measurement and optimization
• Proficient in Python or other programming languages such as Go, Java, or C++
• Familiar with web frameworks such as Django
• Experienced in MySQL, Redis, Elastic Search, Kafka, and Cassandra
• Good understanding of database internals like transactions and indexes. Experience in database schema design
• Experience in working on the AWS
• Good understanding of HTTP and networking
• Good understanding operating systems (Linux)
• Good communication skills, good leadership skills, attention to detail
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, programming languages, distributed systems, and information retrieval
• Experience in Kubernetes is a plus

Employee Benefits

• Compensation: Salary and equity package to ensure our success is yours and 401k plans for your retirement goals.
• Health: 100% Employee coverage for medical. Dental, vision, life, disability. 75% Coverage for dependents.
• Wellness Bundle: Aaptiv, Carrot, Headspace, Quit Genius and Spring Health.
• Time Off: 15 Days PTO not including sick days and company paid holidays (4 sick days, 10 holidays)
• Paid Parental Leave: 6 weeks of pregnancy leave and 8 weeks of bonding leave.
• Technology: Apple Computer, Dell Monitor, accessories
• Additional benefits: One Medical, SmartSpend, SoFi, Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Programs, Travel assistance, Care Concierge access, Dedicated Benefits Advocate.
• Food: Doordash catered lunches on Friday and amazing snack selection in our office.
• Office Locations: Downtown Mountain View, SF WeWork drop in location incoming, remote hubs in LA and Seattle.
• Commuter Benefits through Navia
• Work with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do.

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