Senior Backend Software Engineer
Job Description
For millions of teams working in dozens of industries, day-to-day business gets done on the phone. So why—despite the huge leaps we've taken in design and usability—does most business phone software still look, feel, and act like it was born in the 90s? OpenPhone is changing that.
We’re a new type of business phone with a mission to help people communicate better and be more productive.
We’re backed by Y Combinator and some of the best venture firms around including Tiger Global, Craft Ventures, Slow Ventures, and others. We take pride in providing an exceptional customer experience and a product people love, which is why we’re excited that our customers have rated us the #1 VoIP Provider on G2.
OpenPhone is the modern, sophisticated answer to the clunky, outdated phone systems that have been slowing down businesses for years. And after earning over 20,000 happy customers and $56 million in funding in just four years, it's safe to say we're onto something big.
As a Senior Backend Engineer at OpenPhone, you will spend the majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components. Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or lead a project. You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews, design, and delivering on small/medium size projects end-to-end.
About the Role:
- The engineering team is made up of about 30 people, most of whom work in one of two small cross-functional teams with a third team emerging. These teams contain all the back-end and front-end talent to deliver exciting new capabilities. You will be collaborating with product managers, QA, front-end engineers, and back-end engineers
- Our engineering teams work in two-week cycles and are committed to remote, agile development. We have invested heavily in local Docker development and cloud-based continuous integration and delivery so you can get set up fast and your development branch can be easily tested on environments that closely match production
- You’ll work autonomously and we trust you to get work done when/where you can be productive
- You will maintain and improve standards and best practices
Tech stack you'll use:
- Our backend is built on Node using Typescript
- We use Kubernetes on AWS to orchestrate our infrastructure setup and deployment
- The overall architecture is event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ at the center of it
- We use a variety of databases for different purposes: Postgres, Mongo, Elastic, and Redis.Observability
- Tools: New Relic, Mezmo/LogDNA, Grafana
- Communication Tools: Linear and Slack
About you:
- Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node
- Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging, and distributed tracing
- Experience with relational databases and non-relational databases
- You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication
- You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other
- You practice empathy and generosity
- You are curious
- You support your teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge
- You’re a lifelong learner
- Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable... When working in the codebase, you leave things better than you found them
We're a fully remote team distributed across the world, from San Francisco to Manila, from Milan to Sydney. We thrive asynchronously as a team that is curious, ambitious, and dedicated to their work. We value trust above all else, and have a strong bias for action. If you're looking for a place to do your life's work, please get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
And remember, there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We're looking for optimists with grit and determination, who are excited to face the challenges of a growing startup. OpenPhone is the type of company where you can grow, and we encourage you to apply for this role even if you don't think you meet all the requirements.
We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment. It is important that you are able to bring your authentic self to work every day. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Date Posted
11/17/2022
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