Backend Engineer, Desks

About Envoy

Envoy makes workplaces work better. With a focus on the details, we craft beautiful, modern software that elevates the workplace experience. Companies like Google, Tesla, GitHub, Slack, Stripe, and Pinterest, have worked with Envoy to welcome over 50 million visitors to more than 14,000 locations around the world. We are proudly backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, Initialized Capital, and many others.

Our mission is to challenge the status quo of workplace technology. This idea started at the front desk, but we’re also going through the rest of the office— the mailroom, meeting rooms, and beyond—and we’re asking how we can make these better too. Right now, Envoy is helping the world return to work safely. We do this with our Envoy Protect product. Next to that, we help customers prepare for the new normal of work, Hybrid Work, with our Workplace Platform, our Developer Platform, Desks, and other offerings. 

Our rate of innovation is high, we are customer-centric, and we like to move fast. We envision a world where technology is woven through our workplaces, all of it working together to make our time there delightful. If this world sounds exciting, we’d love for you to help us build the workplace platform.

About the Role

The Desks team owns the systems that power Envoy’s hot desking product and their related developer-facing APIs. As a backend engineer on this team, you’ll work on a combination of new feature development, platform API design and implementation, and infrastructure to help us scale. A successful engineer in this role feels pride in their work, likes learning new technologies and practices, collaborates well with others, and is constantly looking to improve systems while pushing our product forward. 

Our Desks product strives to create a seamless and technology-forward work experience that enables employees to do their best work, together. You will collaborate closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to achieve this goal. 

You will

• Help us scale: Our Desks product is used by tens of thousands of people every day, and generates millions of dollars in revenue. This is only the beginning and you will be an integral part of worldwide expansion.
• Shift the mindset: Envoy is transforming from product to platform. Your work will create the building blocks that will enable developers to build next generation technology into their workplace.
• Design core backend software components that support our Desks product
• Drive engineering projects to completion. You will be an advocate for quality while keeping up with aggressive deadlines.
• Be an advocate for the end-user, whether they are an Envoy customer or external developer
• Be a thought leader in the engineering organization, driving definitions of best practices
• Conduct technical design and code reviews, share your knowledge and experience organization wide

You have

• Enjoy working on products that are used every day by people around the world
• Are comfortable with ambiguity and can leverage your experience to make rock-solid engineering and product decisions 
• Appreciate a fast-paced environment that values iteration 
• Have designed large scale, performant server applications 
• Appreciate good API design and have authored APIs that are exposed to external developers
• Have worked with legacy systems and are adept at implementing quick, meaningful improvements

Nice to have

• Experience with server-side Java or Kotlin
• Experience with Graphql 
• Experience with Postgres or similar relational databases

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Envoy will comply with federal and state mandates regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. We will require employees coming on-site to be vaccinated or in compliance with weekly testing requirements.