Backend Engineer, Platform

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.

You will

We are looking for exceptional engineers to lay the foundational layers of our workplace platform. The Internal Platform team is creating and extending the software building blocks that power the multiple products we build here at Envoy. Systems such as identity and authorization are fundamental components for any product experience and these systems need to be built for high availability, flexibility, performance, and scale. 

We’re a team that values reusability, long term bets, and collaboration with all the different engineering teams. We get excited about delivering value to other engineering teams, and pride ourselves in building highly reliable systems.

• Design core backend software components to be used by every product team at Envoy
• Produce thoughtful and forward thinking API designs accounting for known and unknown use cases
• Drive engineering projects to completion with urgency, but not at the expense of quality, scalability, or performance
• Work collaboratively with teams to plan and execute on engineering projects.
• Conduct design and code reviews

You have  

• 3-5+ years of software engineering experience or coding experience
• Experience building platform APIs that many teams consume
• Skilled in service design and defining encapsulation boundaries
• Strong data modeling expertise
• BS / MS in Computer Science or a related technical field
• You’ve created and supported APIs (REST, JSON/HTTP, GraphQL) and have worked closely with app teams

Nice to have 

• Experience building in SOA or microservice architectures
• Experience with Ruby or Kotlin
• Experience with DBs - Postgres / NoSQL
• Experience with Heroku or AWS
• Experience building and maintaining reliable, performant systems
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment

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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.