Senior Full Stack Engineer

Calendly is a company that empowers product engineering teams to build consistent, high-quality features efficiently. As a Senior Engineer on Calendly’s App Platform team, you will be instrumental in building foundational capabilities that power their product ecosystem, impacting how engineering teams ship features and how millions of users experience Calendly.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain the services and frameworks that product teams depend on
• Contribute to architectural decision and technical strategy for platform services
• Provide guidance to engineers across the organization, share your expertise in distributed systems, and help establish patterns and practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence
• Own and contribute to significant projects from concept to production
• Deliver high impact solutions with quality and reliability at the forefront
• Partner with product managers, designers, and engineering teams across Calendly to understand their needs and translate them into robust platform solutions that serve the entire organization
• Ensure reliability and performance of platform services through thoughtful monitoring, testing, and incident response
• Participate in on-call rotation to support business-critical systems and drive continuous improvement based on operational learnings

Requirements:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience at a SaaS or technology company with a strong focus on backend and distributed systems
• Deep experience in service-oriented architecture, microservice patterns, and building highly resilient / scalable systems
• Proven experience building and operating high traffic, high availability platforms in production environments
• Strong proficiency in building internal tools, frameworks, and SDKs that other engineers use
• Experience with API design and real-time data systems (Server Side Events, Websockets, etc)
• Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex system issues and implement effective solutions
• Strong communication skills, you can explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
• Experience with Golang, Ruby / Rails, NodeJS / Typescript (our primary backend languages)
• Background in platform engineering roles
• Experience performing major architectural refactors, particularly decomposing monolithic applications into microservices
• Familiarity with our cloud ecosystem: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis