Our mission at Nylas is to turn communication into inspiration and insight. We empower over 100,000 developers and over 900 companies all over the world to access, parse, and gain insights from communications data to provide better experiences for their customers and users, all while providing top tier security and compliance. To achieve this vision, we’ve raised over $175M from Tiger Global, 8VC, ScaleUp, Spark Capital, Slack, and more.

We have a huge market (every company that builds software) and a massive opportunity (the world runs on communication and data). By continuing to hire exceptional people from all different backgrounds and perspectives, we have the opportunity to make Nylas one of the biggest, most successful and equitable technology companies in the world.

Why Nylas

Nylas is an advocate for the well-being of our employees. We trust our employees and give them the autonomy to achieve their goals without focusing on when, where, and how they get there. We are a flexibility first workplace. That means if you have a preference for working fully remote, going into the office every day, or anywhere in between, we support that working style. but if Nylanauts want to work from an office, we have hubs in San Francisco, Denver, New York City, Toronto, and London.

We are also strong supporters of internal and cross-team mobility and growth. We want Nylas to be a place where anyone can be supported to grow, learn, and become the best at what they do. We’ve been named a top Startup for career growth and development by Forbes, Great Places to Work, and Comparably!

From our CTO + Co-Founder, Christine Spang:

“We have a number of folks on the team who started as an individual contributor and became staff level or leaders in their area. I personally love seeing people reach their full potential and become successful at Nylas.”

About the role

We’re looking for an experienced software engineer with a history of architecting, developing, and continuously improving complex systems. Our team helps build all things scheduling at Nylas, from scheduling and calendaring API to a fully-featured Nylas Scheduler offering. If you’ve ever thought hard about the traveling salesperson problem, we make APIs to let people solve it with time instead of distance. You’ll be responsible for designing and authoring APIs in Golang and Python to support nuanced use-cases around scheduling events.

You should have a knack for explaining code in such a way that your team learns from you with ease. You should have a desire to mentor others and bring the overall ability of the team up. Over time, we expect you to be an expert on, and own responsibility for, major pieces of our codebase.

Responsibilities

Fast, iterative feature prototyping
Developing on Python and Go codebases
Architecting and designing systems, in collaboration with others, that delight our users
Technical guidance: given company and customer objectives, help aim the direction of our codebase, including testing strategy, CI/CD decisions, and medium term goal setting for your surrounding team
Proactively identifying new opportunities and improvements to existing projects and proposing new strategies around technical problems affecting the team and company
Working collaboratively with a team of developers, designers, and product owners to develop and evolve features and products
Working with cloud-based deployments and application environments

Qualifications

Intellectually curious, passionate, and inventive
8+ years of experience
Advanced proficiency in Python and/or Go
Competency in at least one application framework (like Flask, FastAPI, or Gin or Echo)
Some experience with languages like JavaScript/TypeScript and related web frameworks (like Svelte, React, Vue or Angular)
Experience with modern database and storage (MySQL, NoSQL, and variations thereof)
Experience creating and developing on RESTful APIs
Proven ability to mentor others, via code review, pairing, and general technical guidance
Experience working at a start-up or a fast-paced environment
Experience leading technical projects from start to finish
Someone who wants to be a strong individual contributor and lead large scale technical projects

Not sure if this is you?

We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you’re not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with your application, find another team that might be better suited to your skills, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.

Perks and Benefits:

• Nylas Alumni Fund: after 3 years employment, Nylas will invest $20k into your seed round if you decide to start your own company
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO): we take this very seriously as we care about the well-being of our employees
• CPP 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