Senior Backend Engineer

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  • Company Calendly
  • Employment Full-time
  • Location 🇺🇸 United States nationwide
  • Submitted Posted 3 weeks ago - Updated 2 hours ago

About the team & opportunity 

What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Engineering team? 

We make things possible for our customers through innovation.

Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who will bring deep technical know-how, architectural wisdom and enthusiasm to our team. You will report to one of our Engineering Managers and will be responsible for supporting features and architecture designed to maintain our users’ confidence in Calendly. 

A day in the life of a Senior Backend Engineer at Calendly

The Calendly platform is a monolith that is being decomposed into various services in order for us to scale our platform and team. We need ambitious, experienced engineers who can help us drive this stage of growth. As an engineer at Calendly, you will both build new features and work to scale our platform and architecture. You will build tooling and automation to fine tune our delivery process as you grow into a service oriented specialist. You will also learn to work with multiple technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Argo Workflows, Rails, NodeJS, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, to name a few.

When you join Calendly, you get the opportunity to deliver on a product used by millions and known for its best-in-class quality. Help us continue to deliver critical features to our users with excellence.

On a typical day, you will be working on: 

  • Collaborating within your team to build new features that are targeted at our highest impact enterprise customers
  • Contributing to platform scaling initiatives
  • Meeting regularly with Product and Design to fine tune requirements
  • Attending agile ceremonies to help your team plan out their work and get it done
  • Working across squads to improve Engineering practices at Calendly
  • Reviewing implementation plans and pull requests from your peers
  • Mentoring and coaching other team members

What do we need from you?

  • 7+ years of Software Development experience at a SaaS or technology company
  • Experience with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) (microservices)
  • Experience with a Monolith to Services architectural rebuild
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems to identify root causes and implement effective mitigations and resolutions
  • Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and propose new solutions or improvements that align with organizational goals
  • Ability to adapt to new technologies, changing requirements, and evolving organizational needs
  • A drive to craft clean, reliable and maintainable code
  • Availability for participation in on-call rotation, ensuring prompt and effective responses to business-critical alerts outside of regular working hours
  • Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

What’s in it for you? 

Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly’s products, and we’re still in the midst of our growth curve — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at recruiting@calendly.com . 

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The ranges listed below are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

Calendly takes a number of factors into consideration when determining an employee’s starting salary, including relevant experience, relevant skills sets, interview performance, location/metropolitan area, and internal pay equity.

Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.

Calendly uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current geographic zones are as follows:

  • Tier 1: San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, NY
  • Tier 2: Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Miami, FL, and all other cities in CA.
  • Tier 3: All other locations not in Tier 1 or Tier 2

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