Software Engineer (Backend), Deliverability

What will you be doing?

• Serve as a technical lead on the Deliverability team, driving the architecture and execution of major infrastructure and product projects
• Own and improve high-volume email infrastructure and decisioning systems spanning ingestion, routing, and outbound delivery, driving deliverability outcomes at scale
• Own key services that power Front and lead architectural evolutions to build for reliability and scale
• Collaborate with other systems and infrastructure teams to build upon next-generation architecture
• Collaborate closely with product managers, product designers and other engineers to conceptualize, build, and test new product features

What skills and experience do you need?

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong experience building and operating high-scale, distributed backend systems
• Comfort owning complex systems and making architectural decisions with real production impact
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to engineering and cross-team partnerships
• Experience with on-call responsibilities and a strong sense of ownership over system reliability
• Product mindset, building scalable and extensible solutions that meet customer requirements
• Fluency in a dynamic language like Javascript (Typescript), Python, Ruby, or similar
• Strong track record of launching and delivering projects of significant complexity and high level of ambiguity
• Experience architecting, deploying and operating asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage systems, or high-throughput systems
• Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, and high-growth environment

Nice to have

• Prior experience at a B2B SaaS or customer communications company
• Familiarity with email sending at high volume (millions of messages/day)
• Experience with DNS infrastructure
• Experience working on software systems built on Amazon Web Services
• Deep knowledge of the email stack and assorted RFCs
• Experience with anti-spam infrastructure to prevent bad actors from exploiting an email service
• Built deep integrations with an email delivery service like SendGrid, MailGun, Mandrill or SparkPost
• Experience with Gmail or Office 365 APIs
• Experience with Kafka

What we offer

• Competitive salary
• Equity (we are post-series D & backed by some of the best VCs in the US)
• Private health insurance, including plan options at no cost to employees
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible time off policy
• Flexibility to work from home Monday and Friday, unless posted as a fully remote role
• Mental health support with Workplace Options
• Family planning support with Maven
• $100 per month Lifestyle Stipend to spend on fitness, health and wellness, and other activities
• Wellness Days - Fronteers get an additional day off on months with no holidays
• Winter Break - Our offices are closed from Christmas to New Year's Day!