Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Calendly's Platform Services team and play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining foundational services. Leverage your technical expertise and leadership to influence platform architecture, guide engineering practices, and ensure platform resiliency and scalability. As a Staff Engineer, you will bring strong technical competency and distributed systems experience, solving complex problems with a results-driven mindset. You will report to the Head of Platform Services and work on architectural design, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, planning and execution, and vision and strategy. You will use technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Go, Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Calendly offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
• Experience performing a major architectural refactor. Bonus if you have experience refactoring a monolithic application into microservices
• Experience building, operating, and maintaining high-traffic, high-availability platforms and systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems to identify root causes and implement effective mitigations and resolutions
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and propose new solutions or improvements that align with organizational goals
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong collaborative skills and the ability to work effectively within a team, including remote and distributed teams
• Proven leadership capabilities with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams
• Ability to adapt to new technologies, changing requirements, and evolving organizational needs
• Availability for participation in on-call rotation, ensuring prompt and effective responses to business-critical alerts outside of regular working hours
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

Responsibilities

• Architectural Design: Have a strong opinion on shaping our technical strategy and North Star Architecture as well as guiding the design and implementation of services and components within your area
• Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship, guidance, and decision making to enable engineering teams to deliver the right solutions and outcomes
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. You will be engaged across initiatives spanning Trust & Safety, Identity & Access Management, Scheduling, and Calendar squads to name a few
• Planning & Execution: Act as a hands-on, key contributor on critical “Big Rock” initiatives, delivering high output with high quality. Participate in planning to define scope, milestones, and work breakdown in a manner that promotes incremental delivery and high impact
• Vision & Strategy : Develop and articulate the vision for a service and its capabilities, defining its strategic value, and overseeing its evolution to meet future demands and enhance our overall platform

Benefits

• Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive)
• Equity awards
• Competitive benefits