Sr. Backend Engineer

About the company:   Founded by ex-Apple Product and Engineering leaders, Level is redefining the smart home with technology that is simple, intuitive, useful, and invisible. We recently raised a $100M C round and we're looking to grow our engineering team.   At Level, we take a unique approach to designing products - one that shifts focus from what we make to how we make it and who we make it for. It’s an approach that results in elegant and unique solutions, raising the bar for the entire smart home ecosystem.   It’s also an approach that has led to our partnerships with Apple, Amazon (including Ring integration), Walmart, and other industry leaders – assuring that our products provide solutions that align with the technology choices and preferences of our customers.     About the role:   We're looking to add a Senior Server-side (Backend) developer to our engineering team. If you’re interested in solving complex problems associated with providing a Smart Home experience to others and scaling an application to handle hundreds of thousands to millions of events a day, as well as working in an open, diverse, and inclusive environment, Level Home could be an ideal fit for your career. We’ve had tremendous growth in the past few years and we have an exciting roadmap ahead of us.   We look for strategic thinkers and creative problem solvers with a bias for execution and we’ll expect you to contribute code as well as product/feature ideas from the get-go.

Our technology stack features languages like Python and Golang. Hand in hand with technologies like AWS SNS, Lambda and EKS which allows us to gain data integrity across the platform. We also use really simple database solutions, such as Postgres. 

 

 Responsibilities:

• Program mostly in Python
• Architect, design, and implement backend services including the core API, backend data processing, and vendor integrations.
• Own the full lifecycle of development including design, prototyping, testing, release, and deployment
• Interact directly with other engineering and product teams
• Automate testing of the code you contribute
• Review code on a daily basis

 

 Required qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Python and proficiency in various Python libraries and frameworks
• Experience with distributed systems
• A deep understanding of computer science and software engineering fundamentals such as data structures, parallel and concurrent programming primitives, inter-process communication, cryptography, and so forth
• You prefer simple yet fully functional and extensible solutions
• You can quickly iterate without compromising on quality
• You write clean code
• You are independent and autonomous
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Management Information Systems, another related field or its equivalent.

 

 It would be great if you also possess:

• Experience with FastAPI
• Experience with Kafka
• Data storage-related experience or familiarity with PostgreSQL
• EKS experience

    More about Level Home:   When we look around our homes today, we see opportunity. We see “smart” products that lack utility and connected devices that push us further apart. We see consumers with high expectations, current standards set too low, and products that simply fail to deliver.   Level Home Inc. is re-inventing the standard. We’re redefining “smart”, to center around thoughtfulness, practicality, and the people who make the problem worth solving. We approach product design with a blank slate, zero assumptions, and an open-mind, because the way a problem is defined sets the stage for its solution. We couple deep expertise with unbridled curiosity, because to us “smart” means simple, intuitive, and useful.   We start with empathy, take new perspectives, and challenge existing standards. People are at the heart of what we do, and respecting