Member of Technical Staff, Backend (Enterprise Integrations Platform)

Envoy builds workspace management technology that makes it simple to run secure, compliant, and connected workplaces across every location. Over 16,000 workplaces and properties around the world rely on Envoy to create great experiences for employees and visitors while meeting safety, security, and compliance needs at scale. From corporate headquarters and labs to manufacturing sites, Envoy powers the places where people work best together.

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 This is an L5 opportunity. Successful candidates typically come from staff or principal-level roles and are recognized for establishing technical direction, leading large-scale initiatives, and shaping engineering strategy across organizations.

About the role

The Enterprise Integrations Platform team is responsible for envisioning, architecting, and driving Envoy’s long-term vision for success in integrating with large-scale vendors. This team is responsible for the backend platform and services that enable the creation of the future of buildable integrations. The team’s focus areas include making architectural decisions to ensure the integration platform is secure and reliable, solving scaling issues and optimizing performance, and improving the internal developer experience through an ever-evolving platform SDK.

This on-site position requires 4 days a week (Monday through Thursday) in our San Francisco HQ office.

You will

• Stand up new services that improve the safety, reliability, and accuracy of our access control systems

• Examine, improve, and challenge the existing modalities of how we manage ACS today

• Collaborate with team members to bounce ideas off each other and see delivery of value to customers from start to finish

• Design MVPs with strong technical foundations, and iterate on them with product feedback

You have

• 8+ years of software engineering experience or coding experience

• BS / MS in Computer Science or a related technical field

• Created and supported APIs (REST, JSON/HTTP, GraphQL)

• Typescript or Kotlin development experience in writing, maintaining, and debugging code in a production environment.

• Domain knowledge such as message queues, sharding, auto scaling, and access patterns

• Strong technical foundations for patterns and anti-patterns in software engineering

• An inner product champion who takes pride in knowing and planning what great can look like, not just good

You are

• A self-starter and choose action. You look for problems and inefficiencies in code and find elegant solutions to them before they become major blockers.

• An advocate for the end-user. You think about how our customers will interact with the service and champion positive changes.

• A systems thinker. You think about how your designs will affect other aspects of the service and how it will evolve in the future.

• A curious lifelong learner. Someone who enjoys technology and learning new things, like staying up to date on new tools and techniques. You are inspired by what's possible and eager to incorporate the best technologies into your work.

• Mindful of performance. You think people deserve access to their data in milliseconds.

• Security-minded. We exist because of our customers. When security is breached, trust is lost.

• A champion for high-quality software. You realize the value of automated testing and write code with excellent test coverage. 

• A team player. You believe in collaboration, value different perspectives to make better decisions, and positively contribute to team dynamics.

You'll get

• A high degree of trust in your ideas and execution

• An opportunity to partner and collaborate with other talented people

• An inclusive community where you feel welcomed and cared for as a person

• The ability to make an immediate impact, helping customers create a great workplace experience

• Support for your personal and professional growth

• Unique experience in learning what it takes to grow a business, at the ground level
  

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