Senior Backend Engineer - Data & Insights
About the Role
As part of this new squad within the Growth and Scale group, this Senior Backend Software Engineering role is pivotal in driving initiatives that directly contribute to our company's strategic objectives. This is a new team that will use AI and more to help our customers manage + derive insights from their data.
Some of the areas you’ll support:
Contacts: A key area of the product we plan to evolve this year. You’ll help us design and build an evolved solution with other teams and cross-functional stakeholders to scale efficiently.
Customer data: Along with contacts, you’ll enrich + expand the data our customers store + capture within OpenPhone. You will help us scale our systems in powerful way, using a mix of methods + tools like AI.
Organization & Views: We want our customers to easily have visibility into their conversations, calls, and contacts so they can use easily. We want to use AI to make this a powerful optimization hack!
Your contributions will directly impact our ability to grow and scale as a company. As a Senior Backend Engineer at OpenPhone, you will spend a majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components. Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or lead a project. You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews and design and deliver on small/medium size projects end-to-end.
Technical stack and tools:
Our backend is built on Node using Typescript.
We use Kubernetes on AWS to orchestrate our infrastructure setup and deployment.
The overall architecture is event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ at the center of it.
We use a variety of databases for different purposes: Postgres, Mongo, Elastic, and Redis.
We use Kong as our public API Gateway.
Observability Tools: Datadog
Other Tools: Figma, Linear, Notion, and Slack
About you:
Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node.
Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing
You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication. You hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others to do the same.
You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other. You practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution.
You are curious. You better seek to understand the ‘why’ behind things, so that you can better plan and build the ‘how’. You support your teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge. You’re a lifelong learner.
Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than you found them.
Compensation
The annual base salary range for this position in Canada is $192,000 - $212,000 CAD, plus equity and benefits. This range is designed to align with market rates in areas where we are actively recruiting across Canada.
The range displayed reflects the target for new hire salaries, and within this range, individual pay is determined by your skills and experience, as well as relevant education. Your recruiter can share more and answer questions about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
Salary is just one component of OpenPhone’s total compensation package. Your total rewards package will include equity, extensive medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy.
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Senior Backend Engineer - Data & Insights
About the Role
As part of this new squad within the Growth and Scale group, this Senior Backend Software Engineering role is pivotal in driving initiatives that directly contribute to our company's strategic objectives. This is a new team that will use AI and more to help our customers manage + derive insights from their data.
Some of the areas you’ll support:
Contacts: A key area of the product we plan to evolve this year. You’ll help us design and build an evolved solution with other teams and cross-functional stakeholders to scale efficiently.
Customer data: Along with contacts, you’ll enrich + expand the data our customers store + capture within OpenPhone. You will help us scale our systems in powerful way, using a mix of methods + tools like AI.
Organization & Views: We want our customers to easily have visibility into their conversations, calls, and contacts so they can use easily. We want to use AI to make this a powerful optimization hack!
Your contributions will directly impact our ability to grow and scale as a company. As a Senior Backend Engineer at OpenPhone, you will spend a majority of your time coding, architecting, and owning moderate to complex components. Beyond your technical work, you may also lead a small team or lead a project. You might also spend time providing technical guidance, code reviews and design and deliver on small/medium size projects end-to-end.
Technical stack and tools:
Our backend is built on Node using Typescript.
We use Kubernetes on AWS to orchestrate our infrastructure setup and deployment.
The overall architecture is event-driven microservices with RabbitMQ at the center of it.
We use a variety of databases for different purposes: Postgres, Mongo, Elastic, and Redis.
We use Kong as our public API Gateway.
Observability Tools: Datadog
Other Tools: Figma, Linear, Notion, and Slack
About you:
Strong experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node.
Strong experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing
You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication. You hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others to do the same.
You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other. You practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution.
You are curious. You better seek to understand the ‘why’ behind things, so that you can better plan and build the ‘how’. You support your teammates and customers through the continuous pursuit of knowledge. You’re a lifelong learner.
Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable.. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than you found them.
Compensation
The annual base salary range for this position in Canada is $192,000 - $212,000 CAD, plus equity and benefits. This range is designed to align with market rates in areas where we are actively recruiting across Canada.
The range displayed reflects the target for new hire salaries, and within this range, individual pay is determined by your skills and experience, as well as relevant education. Your recruiter can share more and answer questions about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
Salary is just one component of OpenPhone’s total compensation package. Your total rewards package will include equity, extensive medical coverage, a monthly lifestyle stipend, and a flexible PTO policy.