Senior Backend Software Engineer - Workplace Products
About The Position
We are a small, dynamic team and are looking for software engineers who thrive in a high growth environment working alongside teammates to launch products and features that will be utilized by customers across the globe. As part of the Software Engineering team, you’ll have ownership of one or more projects on various product or platform facing teams. You will work across the full software stack and collaborate cross functionally to build the latest iterations of Verkada’s flagship software, enabling our best-in-class security systems. We consider our team a startup within a startup, with a fair amount of ownership and autonomy. You’ll be working alongside a dynamic team of mobile, and frontend engineers to develop this product line.
Requirements
- BS or a graduate degree in Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, or science
- 4+ years of industry backend software engineering experience
- 2+ years of professional experience as a backend engineer at a rapidly growing start up or innovative company.
- Deep expertise with relational databases.
- Demonstrated expertise in either Python or GoLang
- Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week
Nice To Haves
- Postgres experience
- Experience with Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Ownership of one or more projects on various product or platform facing teams.
- Work across the full software stack.
- Collaborate cross functionally to build the latest iterations of Verkada’s flagship software.
- Develop this product line alongside a dynamic team of mobile, and frontend engineers.
- Drive technical direction and lead teams on project execution.
- Architect scalable systems and design latency sensitive applications for our Intercoms deployed around the world.
- Collaborate cross functionally to design complex systems with simple and robust backend APIs.
- Ship out significant products, owning backend systems end-to-end.
- Demonstrate ownership mentality, resolving problems that span beyond team boundaries.
Benefits
- Comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources
- 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
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
- Expanded mental health support
- Paid parental leave policy
- Fertility benefits
- Paid holidays
- Firmwide extended holidays
- Flexible PTO
- 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
Senior
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
