Description:

The Staff Backend Engineer will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining foundational services and capabilities that support engineering teams and drive product success.
This position requires leveraging deep technical expertise and leadership skills to influence platform architecture and guide engineering practices.
Responsibilities include ensuring the resiliency, scalability, and performance of the platform.
The engineer will work with technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Go, Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
Daily tasks involve architectural design, providing technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, planning and execution of initiatives, and developing a vision and strategy for services.

Requirements:

A deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing is essential.
Experience in performing major architectural refactors is required, with a bonus for experience in refactoring monolithic applications into microservices.
Candidates must have 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 solutions are necessary.
Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and propose new solutions that align with organizational goals is required.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential for conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Proven collaborative skills and the ability to work effectively within remote and distributed teams are necessary.
Leadership capabilities with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams are required.
Candidates must be adaptable to new technologies, changing requirements, and evolving organizational needs.
Availability for participation in an on-call rotation is required to respond to business-critical alerts outside of regular working hours.
Candidates must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States, as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship.

Employees will have the opportunity to make a significant impact as millions rely on Calendly’s products, with the company experiencing growth.
Working at Calendly will accelerate career development and provide opportunities to learn and grow alongside talented colleagues.
Full-time employees are eligible for a Quarterly Corporate Bonus program or Sales incentive, equity awards, and competitive benefits.
The salary range for this role varies based on location, with specific tiers for different metropolitan areas, ensuring competitive compensation.
Calendly is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application or recruiting process.