Backend Engineer

Summary

Join OpenPhone as a Backend Engineer and contribute to a dynamic team building an innovative communication platform for SMBs. You'll work within one of our specialized engineering pillars (Workflow Automation, Communication, Connect, or Data + Insights), utilizing our Node.js (Typescript) based backend. We offer a competitive salary ($174,000 - $193,000 CAD annually) plus equity and benefits, including extensive medical coverage and a flexible PTO policy. As a fully remote company, we value asynchronous teamwork, trust, and a bias for action. We encourage applications even if you don't meet all requirements. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment.

Requirements

• Experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node
• Experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing
• Take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication
• Hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others to do the same
• Be intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other
• Practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution
• Be curious and seek to understand the ‘why’ behind things, so that you can better plan and build the ‘how’
• Don't hesitate to ask the questions when necessary
• Be a lifelong learner
• Write code that is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable
• Leave things better than you found them when working in the codebase

Responsibilities

• Contribute to one of our specialized engineering pillars that power different aspects of our growing platform
• Join one of our teams across our Engineering pillars, who own different areas of our platform: Workflow Automation, Communication, Connect, Data + Insights

Benefits

• Annual base salary range for this position in Canada is $174,000 - $193,000 CAD, plus equity and benefits
• Extensive medical coverage
• Monthly lifestyle stipend
• Flexible PTO policy