Position: Staff Backend Engineer
Company: People.ai
Category: Python
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We value ownership highly—the ability to take an idea through all the stages from conception to shipping a product. This reflects throughout our company, but is especially true in engineering. As an engineer at People.ai, you’ll be a part of highly independent and autonomous team. Since we’re building out a robust data layer that needs to be presented elegantly to the end user, you’ll be working with a large array of different technologies and fields. Expect lots of interesting challenges.

Requirements:
7+ years of professional experience working on backend systems in an enterprise environment
3+ years experience programming in Python 2.x/3.x Scala or Java
Experience with enterprise-grade stack for scalable apps including messaging broker, in-memory storages, NoSQL and key-value databases
Strong knowledge of TDD, Unit and automated tests paradigms
Strong skills in SQL and RDBMS solutions
Understanding of SOA, micro-services and event-driven architecture
Experience with containerized applications, Docker and Kubernetes are appreciated
Possess a DevOps mindset, AWS experience is a plus
Strong knowledge of HTTP stack and REST principles for integration with 3rd-party vendors
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or in a closely related discipline

We offer:
● People: Get an opportunity to work with the top engineering talent in a true Silicon Valley startup
environment: we have Google and Facebook alumni, as well as startup founders in our engineering team.
Our rockstar team is our greatest asset.
● Challenge: We are pioneering the Revenue Intelligence space and transforming how sales
and marketing teams operate. Help us solve the problems no one solved before.
● Opportunity: Join a mid-stage startup and help us bring it to a multi-billion dollar IPO. We move fast and we
offer you an opportunity to accelerate your career with us.
● Compensation: Salary up to 9,000 USD/mo as determined by level & qualifications. Stock options.
100% covered premium medical insurance for you and your family. Unlimited PTO

Responsibilities:
— Design, implement, test, and maintain features in the following core systems within our platform.
— A scalable, fault-tolerant system for synchronizing tens of billions of sales data records into Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems.
— A social graph of the world’s sales data, incorporating hundreds of millions of relationships between people, companies, and deals to create actionable advice for sales and marketing teams.
— An intelligent system for matching sales activity (e-mails, calendar data, calls) with sales data records from Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, incorporating both complex business rules and using Machine Learning to leverage the company’s social graph.
— Our core infrastructure, including areas such as user management, authentication and authorization within our product.

About the project: 
People.ai was founded in early 2016. Since then, it has raised over $100 million in venture funding, with rounds led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, and ICONIQ Capital. The company has over 150 employees in 4 different countries.
Sales, Marketing, and RevOps rely on People.ai to accelerate growth. Our Revenue Operations and Intelligence (ROI) platform harnesses the power of AI to ingest and transform business activity data into insights that maximize revenue. Some of the world’s most innovative enterprises rely on People.ai to increase sales productivity, improve marketing ROI, and accelerate top-line growth.