Staff Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Calendly's Engineering team as a Staff Backend Engineer and contribute to the innovation that powers our customer experience. You will play a key role in architectural design, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration. This position requires deep understanding of distributed systems, experience with backend engineering, and proven leadership capabilities. You will be working with technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Go, Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and Redis. Calendly offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including a quarterly bonus program, equity awards, and competitive benefits. We are looking for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about solving complex problems.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
• Focus on Back End Engineering
• Experience driving zero-to-one development of key technical capabilities
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems to identify root causes and implement effective mitigations and resolutions
• Experience with Typescript and Node
• 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

Responsibilities

• Shape Calendly's technical strategy and North Star Architecture
• Guide the design and implementation of services and components
• Provide mentorship and guidance to engineering teams
• Enable engineering teams to deliver the right solutions and outcomes
• Work closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Act as a hands-on contributor on critical initiatives
• Deliver high output with high quality
• Participate in planning to define scope, milestones, and work breakdown
• Develop and articulate the vision for a service and its capabilities
• Define a service's strategic value and oversee its evolution

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Go

Benefits

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