Member of Technical Staff, Backend

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 L3 opportunity. Successful candidates often come from senior engineering roles and are experienced in leading complex projects, mentoring peers, and making architectural contributions across teams.

About the Role

The Admin Platform team builds the foundational admin features that power Envoy’s scalability across large organizations. From customizable roles and permissions to our internal Event Log service, we enable other teams (and our customers) to securely manage users, settings, and data across complex workplace environments. Our work sits at the heart of enterprise readiness and cross-product consistency. We focus on enabling secure and flexible administration through features such as custom roles and permissions, SCIM sync, and SSO to meet the needs of our largest enterprise customers. 

As a cross-functional team working closely with product and design, we prioritize clarity, extensibility, and performance. We are looking for exceptional engineers who take ownership and enjoy thinking at the platform level, solving technical challenges that support multiple product surfaces, and driving scalable solutions that benefit both our customers and our internal teams. Join us in building the future of workplaces everywhere!

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

You will

• Design and implement enterprise-grade services and features 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship new features

• Ensure the quality, security, availability, and performance of services

• Respond to incidents, identify and resolve bottlenecks, and fix bugs

• Drive engineering projects from inception to completion with a sense of urgency

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to less-experienced engineers

• Help guide decision-making on technical direction for the team

• Deliver excellent software through comprehensive peer reviews, CI, and automated testing

• Serve as the technical expert/lead on team projects

• Be a future shaper and provide technical guidance that shapes the future of our company

• Have the opportunity to work with an amazing team of existing engineers, product managers, and designers, while making a tremendous impact!

You are

• A self-starter and takes 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.

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

You have

• 6+ years of full-stack software engineering experience

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

• Extensive experience developing and consuming APIs (REST, JSON/HTTP, GraphQL)

• Experience with relational databases (i.e,. Postgres) and the ability to design effective data models

• Strong understanding of software engineering principles

• Well-versed in code versioning tools (e.g,. Git/GitHub) and familiarity with CI and CD

• An agilist mindset - solid experience building software using an agile process

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Strong communication skills - the ability to articulate your ideas clearly

Bonus Points

• Experience building APIs with Kotlin

• Strong proficiency in both JavaScript and TypeScript

• Experience with data engineering topics (designing data pipelines, building solutions for data ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and visualization).

• Track record of building enterprise-grade software (building systems that are highly secure, scalable, available, and performant)

• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments

 If you have any questions related to compensation, please contact Recruiting after you apply.

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