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Nylas

Senior Backend Engineer - Workflows Platform

Toronto, Canada
Nylas is a pioneer and leading provider of productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Over 50,000 developers worldwide use the Nylas platform to quickly and securely build productivity features into their applications. With Nylas, developers get unprecedented access to rich communications data from their end-users, pre-built workflows that automate everyday tasks, embeddable UI/UX components for fast front-end development, and comprehensive security features - all delivered via a suite of powerful APIs that make integration easy.
 
Who We Are
 
Nylas was founded in 2013 and has raised over $175M to date from Tiger Global, 8VC, Spark Capital, Slack, and more; as well as individual investors including Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe, John Collison, President and Co-Founder of Stripe, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, and Tony Fadell. Developers around the world use Nylas to quickly and securely build email, scheduling, and work automation features into their applications. Nylas customers include Upwork, Wix, Freshworks, Lever, Dialpad, Ceridian, and Move.com.

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People First
 
Nylas is a BIG advocate for the well-being of its employees, which is why we have embraced a People First philosophy. It’s about giving more autonomy and flexibility to our employees. It’s not about when, where or how the work is accomplished; it’s about adopting a mindset of velocity and trust when tackling the work. It’s about respecting individual working styles, disabilities, and personal schedules, but also ensuring everyone has a better work-life balance. The outcomes will always be more important than the physical location.
 
Nylanauts have the ability to decide the best workspace or environment that will result in more ideas, engagement, creativity, focus, collaboration, and productivity. Why? Because we want our employees to be great; because we are focussed on being a high-performing team. To achieve this mission, we remove barriers and offer more autonomy. So, Nylanauts are encouraged to find those environments that inspire them to be great. This means Nylanauts can work from the slopes of Montana or from the beaches of Italy.
 
And if Nylanauts want to work from an office in one of our hubs (San Francisco, Denver, New York City, Toronto, and London), they can! The workspace is there to be utilized.
 
So, if you’re looking to join a fast-growing company with a beloved, daily-use product, and an authentic mission that puts people first, we want to meet you. Want to know more?  Check us out on Comparably and Great Place to Work!
 
Recent Awards:
 
Fastest Growing Companies (Inc 500)
2020 Great Place to Work (Great Place to Work)
2020 Best Places for Professional Development (Comparably)
2019 Best Leadership Team (Comparably)
2020 Happiest Employees (Comparably)
2020 Best Companies for Compensation (Comparably)
2020 Best Companies for Perks & Benefits (Comparably)
2020 Best Companies for Work-Life Balance (Comparably)
2021 Best Company Culture (Comparably)
2021 Best CEO (Comparably)
2021 Best Company for Diversity (Comparably)


About the team
Developers extensively use Nylas APIs to build an end business use-case such as scheduling an interview. This takes away their valuable resources of human work hours and compute resources. They pay opportunity cost of not utilizing these resources on their core, high-value business logic. The Workflow team at Nylas is responsible for creating a Workflow platform that will empower both Nylas internal developers and customers to express their business use cases as Nylas workflows. We do the grunt work of building and maintaining repeatable logic and our clients can focus on their core business.

About the role
This role will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining various components of the Workflow platform and sample Workflow templates. It also involves working with partner teams and help them onboard on the platform. As a Workflow team member, you will also get to work with Natural Language Processing, deep learning ML models for use-cases such as intent detection, image recognition, etc. 

Responsibilities

  • Creating APIs for the platform and designing data model for the API
  • Managing the reliability and scalability of the API and the platform
  • Maintaining the infrastructure of the platform
  • Using latest technologies like Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, etc.
  • Working on multiple databases like AWS Aurora, Cassandra, MySQL, etc. 
  • Developing using Golang and sometimes Python
  • Develop ML models for intent-detection, image recognition, text parsing, etc.

Qualifications

  • Ability to write production code in Golang, Python, Scala, or Java
  • Strong foundations in Computer Science or Software Engineering
  • 5+ years of experience in developing distributed systems at scale
  • Experience in Backend systems design and development
  • Experience with developing workflow automations
  • Experience deploying containerized services on K8's or Docker
  • Experience developing RESTful API's serving ~5,000rp/s or greater
  • Experience with Temporal, Cadence, or other MSA orchestration tools



Perks and Benefits:
 
Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO): we take this very seriously as we care about the well-being of our employees
RRSP with 3% employer contribution
Education Stipend: $1,250 annual education & development benefit
Perk card: $180 per month towards health, wellness, and other perks via Assembly
Cell Phone: $60 per month stipend towards cell phone reimbursement

Job ID: d8788060-ef4f-48ea-8b7b-787c31ec4e46
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • FSA With Employer Contribution
    • HSA
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Pet-friendly Office
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Paid Holidays
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Relocation Assistance
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Professional Development

    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Woman founded/led

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