Backend Engineer, Growth
About The Position
As a Backend Engineer on the Growth Engineering team, you will be at the forefront of developing and sustaining the vital growth infrastructure at Verkada. This role requires someone with a profound technical acumen combined with a passion for tackling complex business challenges. You will be instrumental in engineering robust, scalable systems that underpin our most mission-critical growth strategies and initiatives. This role will report into our Engineering Manager. We are committed to a thriving in-office culture. This role requires that you be on-site at our HQ in San Mateo, CA 5 days a week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or similar degree).
- 3+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role using backend technologies (python or similar language).
- Experience owning software architecture and API design.
- Ability to learn new systems / technologies quickly.
- Ability and strong interest in communicating cross-functionally with non-technical stakeholders to derive requirements and architect solutions without a PM.
Nice To Haves
- Big plus if you enjoy proactively experimenting with new technologies and approaching traditional business challenges with unique engineering ideas.
- Experience shipping large-scale, highly visible, external facing features/products is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement reliable and observable infrastructure that will help power Verkada's growth engine.
- Contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of backend systems to process the purchase journey and optimize automated workflows.
- Build a complex multivariate experimentation infrastructure to improve the marketing funnel's efficiency.
- Ensure the seamless integration of new technologies and platforms with existing infrastructure.
- Work cross functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Product, teams to translate complex business requirements, define feature specifications and implement them to provide end users with a better product experience.
- Drive innovation in marketing technology, continuously seeking ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in our growth efforts.
Benefits
- Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
- Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
- Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
- Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
- Professional development stipend
- Fertility Stipend
- Wellness/fitness benefits
- Healthy lunches provided daily
- Commuter benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
