Senior Backend Engineer (Remote - North &South America)

Elevate Labs

Posted 3 years ago

About Elevate Labs:

Elevate Labs is on a mission to improve people's minds.

The ability to write well and speak eloquently deeply affects your trajectory in life, regardless of profession. Unfortunately, many people leave high school and even college extremely unprepared in these areas. We developed our flagship mobile app, Elevate, to help bridge this gap, through 35 games (and more on the way) that teach concrete cognitive skills. Elevate has over 30 million downloads and has received numerous accolades, including Apple’s App of the Year award.

The Elevate app was just the beginning. We’ve recently launched Balance, a personalized meditation app, that helps people with their stress, sleep, focus, and much more. It’s a truly customized experience that makes meditation more accessible to millions of people.

Join us in creating the future of products that help people live healthy, joyful, and productive lives.

To support our growing products, we're looking for an experienced backend engineer to build the service infrastructure powering our new meditation app, Balance, which provides users with personalized guided meditation to alleviate stress and improve sleep. We are an agile team making our customers' lives better by building the future of cognitive training and proactive mental fitness.

In our collaborative environment, you’ll work across teams and projects to build amazing products that educate and delight our customers. You’ll work on our backend services, developer tooling, web-based administration portals, and more - so a love of learning new technologies (or prior experience!) is appreciated. As a senior member of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to guide the direction of our products and our engineering team.

What you’ll do here

Lead complex projects by defining requirements, determining solutions, and delivering on results
Participate in the product development process, representing engineering by communicating technical constraints, opportunities, and solutions
Mentor your fellow teammates to help them grow as engineers
Set standards of engineering excellence in service design and implementation with a focus on reliability
Build, maintain, and own services to support multiple products

About you

You have 5+ years of professional software experience building services and web-based applications
You can code effectively in Ruby on Rails
You have designed and implemented RESTful APIs
You have built web-backed applications
You have have worked with integrating 3rd party APIs, especially single-sign on, purchasing, and analytics
You strive for well tested and automated systems
You have shipped at least one customer-facing product
You are user focused and design systems with the end user experience in mind
You are passionate about delivering high-quality, efficient solutions to enable seamless user experiences
You communicate clearly and participate in design and code reviews

Bonus points

Experience with Heroku and AWS
Python proficiency
Experience with mobile app development
Experience with building and maintaining content delivery systems
Experience with web development
Interest in cognitive training and education technology

Benefits

Fully remote environment
Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family
401(k) plan
Fully paid parental leave
Competitive salary and equity
Home office upgrade stipend
Annual learning stipend
Wellness/Fitness Subscription Box

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, &Inclusion:
We believe that there is no single candidate profile that guarantees success in this role. Experience comes in different forms;many skills are transferable;and passion goes a long way. If your background is similar to the job description and you think you can excel in this role, please apply and tell us about yourself and the impact you could make at Elevate Labs.

We also know that diversity of identity, experience, and thought leads to more creativity, better problem-solving, and wiser decisions, which is why we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to our team. We are an equal opportunity employer;committed to diversity and building an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and experiences, and we're taking steps to meet that commitment. We highly encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQIA+ folks, veterans, and people with disabilities.

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