Backend Engineer, Rooms

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 Rooms team owns the systems that power Envoy’s conference room scheduling product. As a backend engineer on this team, you’ll help bring the Rooms product out of beta and deliver an experience that thousands of customers use every day. A successful engineer in this role is a generalist who enjoys operating in multiple languages across different codebases—from backend (Python/Kotlin) to mobile (iOS/Android) to frontend web.

Our Rooms 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 re-launch our Rooms product and scale its usage to tens of thousands of customers
• 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 Rooms 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

• Python (Django) and Kotlin for our server application layer
• Postgres for our database
• Heroku / AWS for our infrastructure

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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.