Esper is experiencing hyper growth! We’re the industry’s first DevOps SaaS platform designed to provide a simple, safe, and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications and manage smart Android devices. Our device infrastructure enables developer, mid-market orgs, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly-growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, and healthcare.

In this role you will contribute to a critical and highly-visible function within the Esper business. You will be given the opportunity to autonomously deliver the technical direction of the service, and the feature roadmap. You will work with extraordinary talent to design and implement architectural changes to the product. If you’re excited to have a large impact on Esper and the device industry, you’ll find this role to be engaging, challenging, and full of opportunities to learn and grow.

Key responsibilities

• Write high quality, stable and test driven software
• Actively reduce and keep a low bug count
• Write clear and structured documentation, release notes and RCAs
• Take ownership of the features, fixes and improvements to the the Esper Platform
• Constantly communicate with stakeholders to keep them apprised of the progress and/or blockers
• Work in an agile, high speed, collaborative startup environment to solve complex problems
• Recommend and improve existing features
• Build and manage deployment automation on supported cloud providers
• Perform design and code reviews
• Track and improve product or feature releases
• Improve product or feature security, reliability and scalability by leading key initiatives

Basic Qualifications

• 3-6 years of experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in managing an application (or part of it) on any cloud provider e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure etc
• Experience in building automation workflows 
• Experience in in designing, developing and deploying at least one customer facing project
• In depth knowledge of the technologies and processes being used in relevant projects
• In depth knowledge of the design choices and architectural tradeoffs considers in relevant projects
• Have a collaborative and iterative approach to problem solving
• Knowledge of CS fundamentals like Data Structures, Algorithms, OS and Networks
• Experience in working on distributed and scalable systems and an understanding of their constraints and tradeoffs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a startup or startup like environment
• Hands on experience in deploying an application to production systems
• Experience in building automation workflows using modern devops tools and languages
• Experience in database design for non trivial domain objects
• Knowledge of Android ecosystem and/or experience in developing Android Applications

This is a perfect opportunity for someone looking to join a fast-growing tech startup. This is an in-person role based out of our Bellevue office.

What we think makes us special

Esper is a fast-growing, well-funded company where everyone matters and you can see your impact daily. We trust our teammates and offer intense ownership and therefore accountability. We’re inventing the future and building something special. The team really enjoys what we do and cares about your input. We don’t hire just to fill a spot, we want you to make a difference. 

As you help us build this special company, Esper will take care of you. We offer flexible vacation, regular hack-days, competitive pay and benefits, and room for advancement. We hire capable veterans so we avoid the drama and trust in each other’s work. Our worldwide footprint mixes different cultures for a unique experience. We also like to have fun because we play just as hard as we work.