At Front, we’re
redefining work communications and collaboration with our shared inbox
for teams. Front brings all of your communication channels (email,
Facebook, Twitter, Twilio SMS, live chat etc.) into one place, so you
can triage and assign messages, have internal conversations around them,
and even sync work across other apps you use from Salesforce to GitHub,
without ever leaving your inbox. Today, over 2,500 companies rely on
Front to power their communications, and we’re just getting started.
We are looking for an experienced backend engineer based in Paris to help build, manage, and scale the Front platform.
Responsibilities / projects you could work on:
- Design, develop, test and implement new product features: frontapp.com/roadmap
- Tune and optimize performance of the app running on our new container infrastructure
- Improve the quality of our search
- Speed-up the analytics pipeline
- Build a service in charge of the synchronization with our different email providers
- Re-implement some of our core components with a lambda architecture
Requirements:
- Full professional English proficiency
- Product mindset, we’re a product company on a mission to "advance how people work”
- Strong track record of launching and delivering projects of significant complexity and high level of ambiguity
- Fluency in a dynamic language like Javascript, Python, Ruby, or similar
- Track record of designing and implementing complex and scalable software services
- Experience
architecting, deploying and operating asynchronous work queues,
high-volume storage systems, and high-throughput systems
- Experience with performance benchmarking and diagnostic tools
- 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
Bonus:
- Experience working with a multi-data center setup
- Extensive experience in node.js, MySQL and memcached on AWS
- Familiarity with email formats or intricate details of HTML parsing
