Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Quo is a remote-first company building an innovative communication platform for small and medium-sized businesses. The Backend Engineer will contribute to engineering teams responsible for workflow automation, communication features, or a confidential new platform feature, using TypeScript, Node, Kubernetes, AWS, and event-driven microservices.
Responsibilities
- As a Backend Engineer at Quo, you'll join a dynamic team working on our innovative communication platform for small and medium-sized businesses
- You'll contribute to one of our specialised engineering pillars that power different aspects of our growing platform, and join one of our teams across our Engineering pillars, who own different areas of our platform:
- Workflow Automation, who develop a highly configurable workflow engine that caters to the diverse operational needs of SMBs using OpenPhone
- Communication, who improve messaging, calling, and internal collaboration features for customer-facing teams and their managers
- A so far confidential team, working on bringing a brand new feature to our platform, that we're not quite ready to talk about externally yet!
Skills
- Experience with Typescript, or experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or C# and Javascript/Node
- Experience with observability tools, including metrics, structured logging and distributed tracing
- You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of communication. You hold yourself to a high standard and help empower others to do the same
- You are intentional about how your work impacts customers, the community, and each other. You practice empathy, generosity, and thoughtfulness as you evaluate tradeoffs in pursuit of the best solution
- You are curious. You better seek to understand the ‘why' behind things, so that you can better plan and build the ‘how'. You don't hesitate to ask the questions when necessary. You're a lifelong learner
- Your code is a pleasure for your teammates to read and understand and you strive to ensure it is readable, testable, and maintainable. When working in the codebase, you leave things better than you found them
Benefits
- Equity
- Extensive medical coverage
- A monthly lifestyle stipend
- A flexible PTO policy
- Remote-first work arrangement
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