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 deliver end to end features, improve product quality and be a technical leader. 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.

Why This Role Is Unique

• You’ll be responsible for end to end implementation and maintenance of the features, fixes, and enhancements to the platform
• Your contributions directly and immediately improve the experience of our customers
• You get to work on cutting edge technologies
• You’ll solve scalability problems that come with managing millions of devices
• Each project you take up will increase the scope of your impact on the platform

What You'll Do

• Improve Esper Platform by planning, recommending, and executing strategic projects
• Create standards, guidelines, sample projects, demos to influence engineering teams to write stable, secure, maintainable, and quality code
• Communicate with engineering teams across multiple time zones to drive and coordinate changes
• Write crisp, clear, and structured architecture, workflow, and usage documentation
• Deliver large projects with zero customer disruption
• Objectively assess new technologies, tools, frameworks, and design patterns for adoption into Esper Platform
• Bring a shift left attitude to problem-solving by identifying and solving problems during ideation, design, and prototyping phases
• Become the Subject Matter Expert(SME) for the Cloud Team

What We're Looking For

• 5+ YOE
• Hands-on experience in working with all parts of the stack
• Experience with managing deployments and creating automation workflows on at least one public cloud
• Experience in writing integration with external systems like API’s, DB, message queue etc
• Experience in building, deploying, and maintaining scalable distributed systems
• Experience in driving engineering best practices for efficient software development like coding standards, review guidelines, build processes and automation
• Experience in collaborating with the Product team to gather feedback to drive technical decisions
• Customer and requirements driven approach to problem-solving

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in managing an application (or part of it) on any cloud provider e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure etc
• Experience in database design for non-trivial domain objects
• Experience in defining and driving success metrics for a product/feature
• Knowledge of Android ecosystem and/or experience in developing Android Applications

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision 90% covered by the company
• Equity is given as part of offer letters
• 401K with a company match that vests immediately
• Monthly phone and Internet reimbursement
• Unlimited time off policy with a mandatory 2 weeks time off (minimum)
• Catered lunches
• Wide variety of snacks in the office 
• Each new employee gets access to LinkedIn Learning, which is paid for by Esper because we want employees to continue to grow personally and professionally 
• Ergonomics standup desks with 36” curved widescreen monitors for each employee
• Mac or PC, depending on your OS preference
• Team hikes and other events (e.g. mini-golf, etc.) on a monthly basis

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.