Staff Full Stack Engineer (Backend Focused)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

About the team & opportunity:

Calendly makes things possible for our customers through innovation. We are looking for a Staff Full Stack Engineer who will bring strong technical competency and distributed systems experience, enjoys solving complex problems with a results driven mindset, and fosters a strong sense of ownership and operational excellence. You will be using technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Node, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, and more. You will report to one of the Engineering Managers in our Scheduling group and will be at the forefront of building a best-in-class contact management and scheduling experience that empowers users to foster stronger connections and host exceptional meetings with ease and efficiency.

A Day in the Life of a Staff Full Stack Engineer at Calendly

• Architectural Design: Shaping our technical strategy and North Star Architecture, and guiding the design and implementation of services and components.
• Technical Leadership: Providing mentorship, guidance, and decision-making to engineering teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Planning & Execution: Acting as a hands-on, key contributor on critical “Big Rock” initiatives, delivering high output with high quality; participating in planning to define scope, milestones, and work breakdown in a manner that promotes incremental delivery and high impact.
• Vision & Strategy: Developing and articulating the vision for a service and its capabilities, defining its strategic value, and overseeing its evolution to meet future demands and enhance our overall platform.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems to identify root causes and implement effective mitigations and resolutions.
• Experience with a Monolith to Services architectural rebuild.
• Experience with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) (microservices).
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and propose new solutions or improvements that align with organizational goals.
• Availability for participation in on-call rotation, ensuring prompt and effective responses to business-critical alerts outside of regular working hours.
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architectural design.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to engineering teams.
• Collaborate with product, design, and other stakeholders.
• Drive innovation and propose new solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotation.