Backend Engineer

About Nylas

Our mission is to help developers leverage communications data and build features that increase customer engagement, productivity, and retention.

Nylas was founded in 2013 by a couple of MIT grads who were passionate about making complex systems simpler. Our co-founder and CTO Christine Spang saw that email use was growing at a steady rate, yet there wasn’t a simple way to unify this data-rich tool in a way that developers could easily integrate with this data. She and a small team (at the time) set out to fix this.

Position

• This role will be responsible for designing, developing and deploying microservices applications that build additional intelligence layers on top of Nylas’ communication APIs. You’ll be doing everything from building more API endpoints, working with data streams, aggregating data from external APIs for automated workflows, and more!
• Prototyping new concepts that power the machine intelligence components that are supercharged by Nylas communications APIs
• Designing and exploring new architectures to solve specific problems
• Building out machine learning pipelines and automation workflows
• Building infrastructure that launches Kubernetes container orchestration systems on multi-cloud environments

Your qualification

• Strong foundations in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Have 2 years of backend development on high-impact projects
• Track record and references from great people
• Collaborate well with product management, designers and developers
• Have excellent visual design skills with sensitivity to user-system interaction
• Communicate design decisions openly and confidently, regardless of the audience—engineers, PMs, executives, other designers, etc.
• Not afraid to change your opinion in the face of new information or understanding of the product goals—you have strong beliefs, but you’re open-minded

What we offer

• Competitive Pay
• Meaningful Equity
• Medical, Vision, and Dental benefits for you and your family (including One Medical membership)
• 401k, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits
• $1k yearly Education & Development benefit
• Catered lunch & Unlimited snacks
• $100 a month health and wellness benefit
• Relocation assistance
• Unlimited vacation (mandatory 2 week consecutive vacation once per year)
• 12 weeks caregiver leave
• Flexible work hours