Nylas is a pioneer and leading provider of productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Over 100,000+ developers worldwide use the Nylas platform to quickly and securely build productivity features into their applications. With Nylas, developers get unprecedented access to rich communications data from their end-users, pre-built workflows that automate everyday tasks, embeddable UI/UX components for fast front-end development, and comprehensive security features - all delivered via a suite of powerful APIs that make integration easy.

Who We Are

Nylas was founded in 2013 and has raised over $175M to date from Tiger Global, 8VC, Spark Capital, Slack, and more; as well as individual investors including Patrick Collison, Co-Founder and CEO of Stripe, John Collison, President and Co-Founder of Stripe, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of Klarna, and Tony Fadell. Developers around the world use Nylas to quickly and securely build email, scheduling, and work automation features into their applications. Nylas customers include Upwork, Wix, Freshworks, Lever, Dialpad, Ceridian, and Move.com.

People First

Nylas is a BIG advocate for the well-being of its employees, which is why we have embraced a People First philosophy. It’s about giving more autonomy and flexibility to our employees. It’s not about when, where or how the work is accomplished; it’s about adopting a mindset of velocity and trust when tackling the work. It’s about respecting individual working styles, disabilities, and personal schedules, but also ensuring everyone has a better work-life balance. The outcomes will always be more important than the physical location.

Nylanauts have the ability to decide the best workspace or environment that will result in more ideas, engagement, creativity, focus, collaboration, and productivity. Why? Because we want our employees to be great; because we are focussed on being a high-performing team. To achieve this mission, we remove barriers and offer more autonomy. So, Nylanauts are encouraged to find those environments that inspire them to be great. This means Nylanauts can work from the slopes of Montana or from the beaches of Italy.

And if Nylanauts want to work from an office in one of our hubs (San Francisco, Denver, New York City, Toronto, and London), they can! The workspace is there to be utilized.

So, if you’re looking to join a fast-growing company with a beloved, daily-use product, and an authentic mission that puts people first, we want to meet you. Want to know more? Check us out on Comparably and Great Place to Work!

Recent Awards:

Fastest Growing Companies (Inc 500)

2020 Great Place to Work (Great Place to Work)

2020 Best Places for Professional Development (Comparably)

2019 Best Leadership Team (Comparably)

2020 Happiest Employees (Comparably)

2020 Best Companies for Compensation (Comparably)

2020 Best Companies for Perks & Benefits (Comparably)

2020 Best Companies for Work-Life Balance (Comparably)

2021 Best Company Culture (Comparably)

2021 Best CEO (Comparably)

2021 Best Company for Diversity (Comparably)

About the team

Our Features team is growing in Toronto! Our team helps build and expand the Nylas Cloud APIs, which allow our customers and developers to make effortless use of email, calendar, and contact data. We want to create tools and features that make it easier for developers to use our platform in building their applications and increase our product offerings into new territory.

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll help us scale and build new products on top of our APIs. Right now, our open-source Python sync engine regularly archives terabytes of data across a massive SQL cluster, and our Flask APIs handle tens of millions of requests a day. We aim to scale that several times over in the next year.

Our engineers end-to-end own and ship new features, like offering Contact sync, while providing mentorship through pairing. They shard our webhook systems, then re-architect in SQS as we scale. They solve tricky customer issues, debug slow MySQL queries, and sometimes get into the depths of MIME and other email protocols. On the side, they improve our internal developer experience, most recently with MyPy, and open-source our custom-built tools. They talk at conferences, write blog posts, and make strong showings at local events.

You should have a growth mindset, enough engineering experience to architect complex systems, a track record of managing your own projects, and a strong sense of practical shippability over-engineering purity. You should also tend toward humbleness in your abilities and have an innate desire to pass knowledge onto others.

Responsibilities

• Fast, iterative feature prototyping
• Developing on a Python application codebase written in Flask
• Working collaboratively with a team of developers, designers, and product owners to develop and evolve features
• Writing automated tests to ensure reliability of our features
• Designing and influencing the design of systems that leverage distributed computing and storage
• Working with cloud-based deployments and application environments

Qualifications

• 5+ years of production engineering experience
• Advanced proficiency in Python (nice to have experience in Ruby, Node.js, Go, Java, and/or PHP)
• Competency in at least one Python application framework (like Flask or Django)
• Experience with modern database and storage (MySQL, NoSQL)
• Experience creating and developing on RESTful APIs
• Experience iterating with git / modern version control
• Experience working at a startup or a fast-paced environment
• Someone who wants to be a strong individual contributor and lead large scale technical projects

Perks and Benefits:

Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO): we take this very seriously as we care about the well-being of our employees

RRSP with 3% employer contribution

Education Stipend: $1,250 annual education & development benefit

Perk card: $180 per month towards health, wellness, and other perks via Assembly

Cell Phone: $60 per month stipend towards cell phone reimbursement