Job Description

About SimpliSafe

We’re a high-tech home security company that’s passionate about protecting the life you’ve built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we’ve created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you’re building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don’t just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.

We are partnering with a local India firm called Kaamwork to build out an Engineering presence in India.

Why are we hiring?

Well, we’re growing and thriving. So, we need smart, talented, and humble people who share our values to join us as we relentlessly pursue our goal of ensuring everyone feels safe in their own home.

In this role, you will:

• Build solutions from their inception through to production - from design, development, testing and deployment.
• Use the best tools for the job; creating right-sized, tested, and reliable services to meet the needs of customers and co-workers
• Work on microservices which are:
• Small and independent
• Easy to learn, change, extend
• Collaborate and coordinate with various engineering teams within the platform to drive adoption, gather feedback, and continuously improve the solution.

About You

• A collaborative team player with industry experience (5+ years) writing backend services at scale using one of Go, Java, JS, or C#
• Experience working with desktop applications
• Working familiarity with at least one other language and a willingness to work in a polyglot development environment.
• Thorough understanding of foundational web service technologies (e.g. TCP, REST, grpc, Protobuf, JSON).
• Experience with cloud technology (AWS preferred) and designing solutions that leverage its unique advantages.
• Collaborative mindset and a passion for technology and learning. Enjoys mentoring teammates and helping everyone perform better.
• Practitioner of lean or agile software development principles and practices, understanding and advocating the importance of test automation, continuous delivery, continuous improvement, and value delivery.
• Nice to haves:
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, and such)
• Experience with Python
• Experience working with one or more of the following data handling technologies (SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Amazon SQS, Elasticsearch, Kafka)
• Comfortable with the CLI and shell scripting
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS)