Senior Full Stack Engineer, API
About the team & opportunity
What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Engineering team?
We make things possible for our customers through impactful innovation.
Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for an engineer who will bring deep technical know-how, architectural wisdom and enthusiasm to our team. You will report to one of our Engineering Managers and will be responsible for building and scaling our API Platform.
A day in the life of a Senior Full Stack Engineer at Calendly
You build and expand upon a growing service based ecosystem. Enabling other teams within Calendly to build in an API-first manner. You enjoy building new features end-to-end and helping guide the way to breaking down a monolith. Top candidates are proactive, stakeholder-minded, and empathetic.
You and your team members impact every aspect of development from design, delivery and maintenance. You write well-tested software and are looking to grow into a service oriented specialist. You are comfortable working in numerous technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Go, JavaScript, Docker, PostgreSQL and more
On a typical day, you will be working on:
- Advocating for strong foundations in technical architecture while maintaining high velocity
- Working end-to-end to deliver features - from discovery, product design, technical design, coding, testing, shipping, and iteration based on collaborator feedback
- Reviewing tech specs and pull requests from other specialists
- Improving our engineering systems and processes; we operate an agile process with sprints and iterate continuously
- Mentoring and coaching other team members
What do we need from you?
- 7+ years of Software Development experience at a SaaS or technology company
- Deep proficiency with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) (microservices)
- Previously migrated a Monolithic Application to Service based
- Experience building a public API Platform
- Experience building and maintaining an API Gateway
- Experience with Rails is nice to have, but not required; we know the best engineers will learn languages as needed
- Excited to craft simple software solutions to sophisticated problems
- Strive to craft clean, reliable and highly maintainable code
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
What’s in it for you?
Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly’s products, and we’re still in the midst of our growth curve — it’s a phenomenal time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional career.
Our Hiring Process:
Typically, individuals will participate in the following interview process. However, there may be slight nuances given the role and or department we are hiring for. Please keep in mind that individuals can be declined from the position at any stage of the process.
- Qualified individuals will be invited to schedule a phone interview with a member of our recruiting team. This is a great time to ask any initial questions you have about the company or the role.
- Next, we’ll put you in direct contact with your potential manager. You’ll get a chance to learn even more about life at Calendly, the responsibilities within your role, and the qualities needed to succeed here.
- Then, we will send a take home test where you can highlight your skills.
- Next, or in parallel, you’ll meet with your potential team members.
- Finally, we connect with those you’ve worked with before, to learn more about the impact you can make, the value you bring, and the best way to set you up for success at Calendly.
We aim to provide an inclusive and equitable experience to everyone who expresses interest in working at Calendly. The recruiter assigned to this role will keep you informed every step of the way. Have questions? Let your recruiter know! Want to share your experience? We are passionately committed to improving and building on our process, and we consider feedback a gift.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at recruiting@calendly.com .
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