Recruiting From Scratch Hiring for Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Remote) at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Who is Recruiting from Scratch:
Recruiting from Scratch is a premier talent firm that focuses on placing the best product managers, software, and hardware talent at innovative companies. Our team is 100% remote and we work with teams across the United States to help them hire. We work with companies funded by the best investors including Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures, Tiger Global Management, A16Z, Accel, DFJ, and more. If you are a fit, the team will reach out to you about this role or any others that may be a fit for our clients.

About Our Client

Our client is the first sleep fitness company. They design products at the forefront of sleep innovation. Our client’s mission is to make people’s sleep count for more, using innovative technology, detailed design, and proven science and data to personalize and improve each night for everybody—changing the way people sleep forever and for the better.

Our client wants to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. In 2019, they launched our temperature-regulated smart bed, The Pod. They currently power the sleep of over 60,000 people every night. They have partnered with Barry’s as their Official Sleep Fitness Partner. Our client actively collaborates with Justin Medeiros, 2021 Crossfit Champion and Red Gerard, U.S. Snowboarding Olympic Gold-Medalist. GQ awarded our client the Fitness Reward in 2021, along with receiving the Men’s Health Sleep Award that same year. Our client is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors and recognized as one of the Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies In Consumer Electronics.

Our client is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to help them expand our product features and our capability to scale. They have distributed back-end systems responsible for critical business logic as well as bridging communications / data flows between our embedded, machine learning, mobile, and business intelligence systems.

We are seeking someone who is passionate about designing, implementing, and supporting expanding distributed systems and appreciating the impact they have on all aspects of the member experience. We look for people who dig under the hood and understand what the technology is doing, so we can make wise decisions about how our technology should evolve.

How you’ll contribute

• Maintain and improve the integrity of our data processing pipeline (5Tb per day)
• Develop tools to guarantee the availability of our client’s services (~30 microservices) and automate their operation
• Contribute to the development of back-end services and product features

What you’ll need to succeed

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience as a backend/SRE
• Language polyglot, advanced experience with at least 2 out of C# (.NET core), Python, NodeJS+TypeScript
• Experience with distributed systems
• Familiarity with AWS Kinesis and DynamoDB

Why you’ll love our client

• They are a tight-knit, passionate team that’s working to improve people’s lives by improving the way they sleep
• Leadership is committed to employees’ wellness and career development
• You’ll get a better night sleep every night
• Flexible, generous PTO
• 100% employer contribution for medical/dental/vision insurance

Base Salary Range: 175K-200K