Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Nylas is a pioneer and leading provider of productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Over 100,000+ developers worldwide use the Nylas platform to quickly and securely build productivity features into their applications. With Nylas, developers get unprecedented access to rich communications data from their end-users, pre-built workflows that automate everyday tasks, embeddable UI/UX components for fast front-end development, and comprehensive security features - all delivered via a suite of powerful APIs that make integration easy. Who We Are Nylas was founded in 2013 and has raised over $175M to date from Tiger Global, 8VC, Spark Capital, Slack, and more; as well as individual investors including Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe, John Collison, President and Co-Founder of Stripe, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, and Tony Fadell. Developers around the world use Nylas to quickly and securely build email, scheduling, and work automation features into their applications. Nylas customers include Upwork, Wix, Freshworks, Lever, Dialpad, Ceridian, and Move.com . People First Nylas is a BIG advocate for the well-being of its employees, which is why we have embraced a People First philosophy. It’s about giving more autonomy and flexibility to our employees. It’s not about when, where or how the work is accomplished; it’s about adopting a mindset of velocity and trust when tackling the work. It’s about respecting individual working styles, disabilities, and personal schedules, but also ensuring everyone has a better work-life balance. The outcomes will always be more important than the physical location. Nylanauts have the ability to decide the best workspace or environment that will result in more ideas, engagement, creativity, focus, collaboration, and productivity. Why? Because we want our employees to be great; because we are focussed on being a high-performing team. To achieve this mission, we remove barriers and offer more autonomy. So, Nylanauts are encouraged to find those environments that inspire them to be great. This means Nylanauts can work from the slopes of Montana or from the beaches of Italy. And if Nylanauts want to work from an office in one of our hubs (San Francisco, Denver, New York City, Toronto, and London), they can! The workspace is there to be utilized. So, if you’re looking to join a fast-growing company with a beloved, daily-use product, and an authentic mission that puts people first, we want to meet you. Want to know more? Check us out on Comparably and Great Place to Work! Recent Awards: Fastest Growing Companies (Inc 500) 2020 Great Place to Work (Great Place to Work) 2020 Best Places for Professional Development (Comparably) 2019 Best Leadership Team (Comparably) 2020 Happiest Employees (Comparably) 2020 Best Companies for Compensation (Comparably) 2020 Best Companies for Perks & Benefits (Comparably) 2020 Best Companies for Work-Life Balance (Comparably) 2021 Best Company Culture (Comparably) 2021 Best CEO (Comparably) 2021 Best Company for Diversity (Comparably) Responsibilities Develop strong architecture and code design, implement systems that enable better testing, and add new tooling to improve code quality. Drive the adoption of best software design practices at the team level, and successfully refactor major system components. Evaluate software architectural decisions, and create a lasting and effective architecture for a major component of our software platform and solutions. As a cross-functional resource, contribute to the company's knowledge base and provide detailed and thorough advice across topics; use new technologies, patterns, and practices to write code across the entire stack; and fix bugs quickly. Identify bugs from backlogs and make design quality improvements; perform software trust and safety tasks. Perform code review as a domain expert. Operate infrastructure as code, and participate in on-call rotation for enterprise-grade production traffic, currently every one week out of six. Deliver well-scoped programs of work, including delivering substantial subcomponents of a major project, that meet overall project goals, and budgeting and timeline constraint. Debate and re-evaluate major architectural decisions. Collaborate with other team members to share useful information, solicit feedback, and facilitate communication for multiple stakeholders; organize, consolidate, and disseminate information across an entire team. Present information to large technical and non-technical audiences. Mentor other engineers on the team, contribute high quality, high impact, education content, and enable others to readily contribute to the company’s knowledge base. Participate in the interview process, to help build a diverse pipeline, and define processes and structures that help grow and execute a diverse engineering organization. The person who fills this role may work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely-related 3 years of experience with backend software development Background with Python, Java, or .NET Background with SQL and MySQL Experience above must include 2 years with cloud and distributed architecture Background collaborating with product management, designers, and developers Experience above must include 3 years using Agile methodologies to build and develop a SaaS or non-SaaS product that is B2B or B2C Background communicating technical product design concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences (e.g. engineers, project managers, executives, other designers) Experience above must include 2 years with AWS and Google Cloud Platform Perks and Benefits: Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO): we take this very seriously as we care about the well-being of our employees Healthcare: 90% premium coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your family One Medical onsite and tele-health membership for you and dependents Additional: Health and DC FSA, Life insurance, with options for STD, LTD Retirement Plan: match up to 3% of annual salary for 401k or RRSP contributions Education Stipend: $1k annual education & development benefit Perk card: $150 per month towards health, wellness, and other perks via Assembly Cell Phone: $50 per month stipend towards cell phone reimbursement Fully Paid Parental Leave: 12 weeks parental leave (maternity & paternity) Equal Opportunity Employer: Nylas is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states/provinces. If you are not located in or able to work from a state/province where Nylas is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Visa sponsorship may not be available in certain remote locations. Nylas is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also EEO is the Law. Apply for this job