Who we are
Our mission at Nylas is to turn communication into inspiration and insight. We empower over 100,000 developers and over 900 companies all over the world to access, parse, and gain insights from communications data to provide better experiences for their customers and users, all while providing top tier security and compliance. To achieve this vision, we've raised over $175M from Tiger Global, 8VC, ScaleUp, Spark Capital, Slack, and more.
We have a huge market (every company that builds software) and a massive opportunity (the world runs on communication and data). By continuing to hire exceptional people from all different backgrounds and perspectives, we have the opportunity to make Nylas one of the biggest, most successful and equitable technology companies in the world.
Why Nylas
Nylas is an advocate for the well-being of our employees. We trust our employees and give them the autonomy to achieve their goals without focusing on when, where, and how they get there. We are a flexibility first workplace, but if Nylanauts want to work from an office, we have hubs in San Francisco, Denver, New York City, Toronto, and London.
We are also strong supporters of internal and cross-team mobility and growth. We want Nylas to be a place where anyone can be supported to grow, learn, and become the best at what they do. We've been named a top Startup for career growth and development by Forbes , Great Places to Work, and Comparably !
From our CTO + Co-Founder, Christine Spang:
"We have a number of folks on the team who started as an individual contributor and became staff level or leaders in their area. I personally love seeing people reach their full potential and become successful at Nylas."
About the team:
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:
Were looking for an SDK developer to help us bring our Nylas Cloud APIs to more users with an even better developer experience. We currently offer SDKs for Python, Node, Ruby and Java , and would like to begin offering them in other languages as well, like Go, Swift, Dart, and more.
We're looking for a polyglot developer who has experience building applications and architecting systems across many different languages, with the ability to learn new ones quickly.
You should have a growth mindset, be intellectually curious, passionate and driven to architect complex systems, have 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
• Expose new API features into our currently-supported SDKs
• Interpret and translate SDKs into new languages
• Work with the open-source community to help manage and drive development of our SDKs
• Work collaboratively with a team of developers, designers, and product owners to develop and evolve features
• Writing tests to ensure reliability of our features
• Working with cloud-based deployments and application environments
• Lead large scale technical projects as an individual contributor

Qualifications:

• 2+ years experience contributing to production code or specifically developing SDKs
• You have advanced proficiency in, and consider one of the following to be your primary programming language: Python, Node, Ruby, Java, or Golang
• In addition to your primary language, you have comfort working with 2-3 other object-oriented programming languages (OOP)
• You have built an SDK or package from scratch or have extended an SDK/package from one language to another
• Experience creating and developing on RESTful APIs
• Experience iterating with git / modern version control
• Experience leading technical projects from start to finish
• Bonus: Experience contributing to, and managing contributions for open-source projects
• Bonus: Experience working with mobile languages and frameworks like Swift, Objective-C, Dart, or Kotlin (to name a few)
• Bonus: Experience with modern database and storage (MySQL, NoSQL, etc)

Perks and Benefits:

• Nylas Alumni Fund : after 3 years employment, Nylas will invest $20k into your seed round if you decide to start your own company
• Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) : we take this very seriously as we care about the well-being of our employees
• Healthcare : 90% premium coverage for medical, dental and vision for you and your family
• One Medical onsite and tele-health membership for you and dependents
• Additional : Health and DC FSA, Life insurance, with options for STD, LTD
• Retirement Plan : match up to 3% of annual salary for 401k or RRSP contributions
• Education Stipend : $1k annual education & development benefit
• Perk card : $150 per month towards health, wellness, and other perks via Assembly
• Cell Phone : $50 per month stipend towards cell phone reimbursement
• Fully Paid Parental Leave : 12 weeks parental leave (maternity & paternity)

Equal Opportunity Employer:
Nylas is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states/provinces. If you are not located in or able to work from a state/province where Nylas is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Visa sponsorship may not be available in certain remote locations.
Nylas is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
See also: EEO is the Law .
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Not sure if this is you?
We want a diverse, global team, with a broad range of experience and perspectives. If this job sounds great, but you're not sure if you qualify, apply anyway! We carefully consider every application and will either move forward with your application, find another team that might be better suited to your skills, keep in touch for future opportunities, or thank you for your time.