Paperless Post is seeking an experienced full-stack software engineer to build and maintain end-to-end product experiences within a streamlined agile software environment. Our flagship application is built on a complex network of over 200M hosts and guests, and receives over 5M unique visitors per month.

In this role, you'll work within a dedicated product team to craft new features and iterate on existing ones. Our frontend stack consists of React, Redux, NextJS. Our backend stack is an SOA mostly written in Golang, with a NodeJS GraphQL and orchestration layer. Postgresql is our source of truth, and we deploy into AWS via Kubernetes. Highly qualified candidates will have real production experience with much of our stack, and a healthy appetite to quickly learn the unfamiliar parts.

A little bit about us

The PP Engineering team, a highly collaborative group of developers and technologists, is charged with building and refining a consumer-facing product that millions of people interact with each month. The team you’ll be joining focuses on the highest priority projects across our product domains and is made up of engineers, product managers, QA, and product designers. We prioritize creativity and continuing education, and our ongoing commitment to quality code shows in our pragmatic yet brave approach to technology.

What you’ll do here

Collaborate with other engineers to seamlessly develop and maintain new and existing features in our host management platform.
Maintain and implement web-based tools for dynamic webpage creation, used by our users and in-house content team.
Design and develop maintainable, reliable, and scalable enterprise-level, services-based software.
Fully leverage your experience with React, Redux, GraphQL, and Go to extend a stateful web application and underlying services.
Adhere to and develop architectural standards within an SOA environment.
Design and implement consistent, high-throughput, low-latency APIs while balancing trade-offs between consistency and availability.
Deploy regular code releases to production and test environments in Agile release cycles.

What you bring to the table

7+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer in an established codebase, or a reasonable combination of frontend and backend experience.
Empathy for the people who worked on the code base before you.
A passion for solving problems, and building features, for our users.
Proficiency with our core technologies of React, GraphQL, Golang, and Postgresql are all required.
Ability to partner with other engineers and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
A knack for building scalable systems, and experience with web infrastructure, distributed systems, and performance analysis.
The ability to think critically about complex challenges and to implement concise solutions that make sense to your peers.
Knowledge of developing RESTful APIs and maintaining SLAs.

Company-wide, we enjoy an amazing ecosystem of an even gender split and a balance of engineers and designers. Because Paperless Post isn't supported by ad revenue, we can focus our efforts on creating and improving on the ideal version of our platform, product, content, and partnerships for our users.

We are proud that Paperless Post has helped over 200 million people globally connect in the real world since our inception. Paperless Post exists to helpallpeople celebrateallthe moments that matter to them. We believe that having a team reflective of the diverse world around us empowers us to create a product that serves everyone. Women, people of color, trans/genderqueer individuals, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are especially encouraged to apply.

The compensation range for this role is $135,000 - 160,000 USD.

At Paperless Post, compensation is based on a number of factors, including geographic location, job-related skills, years of experience, and internal team banding. All full-time offer packages come with a base salary, equity component, and options for fully paid medical, dental, and vision benefits.The range posted here is based on the NYC market and may vary based on candidate location.