About Calm

We have a simple mission at Calm: To make the world a happier and healthier place.

The heart of Calm is digital but the brand is expanding offline into a variety of products and services that bring more peace, clarity and perspective into people’s busy lives. We are building Calm into the Nike of the Mind. We believe Calm can become one of the most valuable and meaningful brands in the world.

Over 75 Million people have downloaded the app and we are growing by 100,000 new downloads a day. The company is profitable and headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Calm was co-founded by Alex Tew (Million Dollar Homepage) and Michael Acton Smith (Mind Candy, Moshi Monsters, Firebox).

Mission

To build the backend functionality that powers Calm’s product experience across a variety of platforms. To quickly implement product and design changes that focus on improving business metrics for user acquisition and engagement. To ensure the Calm’s backend services and APIs are using industry best practices to optimize speed of development, performance, and an exceptional user experience.

Outcomes

• Implement changes that precisely match product specifications
• Help improve specs by asking questions about edge cases and behavior during the planning and scoping stages
• Provide product feedback to the rest of the team when new ideas and problems arise
• Focus on projects that have an impact on improving business metrics and allow the team to quickly implement A|B tests to help determine improvements
• Increase the visibility of service performance and health, and ensure we have the appropriate logs/alerts in place to respond quickly and recover from problems
• Improve the stability and performance of the backend services, and increase visibility into the health of the system by improving our logging, alerting, and process around recovering from problems
• Write code that has been tested well enough before shipping so that we do not cause a noticeable increase in the number of support issues filed over time
• When critical bugs are shipped to production, proactively identify root causes and take the appropriate resolution actions so that we can recover quickly
• Stay up to date on the latest technologies relevant to the backend tech stack, and use this knowledge to implement new features and changes if they’ll provide a better experience
• Proactively assist other engineers on the team in fixing bugs and shipping features and updates
• Write maintainable code that can be quickly updated as needed, and is testable and easily understood by other engineers on the team
• Provide fairly accurate engineering time estimates that help determine project priority
• Be on call from time to time if there are critical issues on production that need debugging
• Take ownership and responsibility to finish the features and issues assigned to you, while collaborating with the team
• Assist deploying builds to production and QA environments, and have visibility on the status of Pull Requests and builds as they get deployed
• Provide helpful code reviews and ensure PRs do not linger with long delays in review time
• Devise innovative and cost-effective strategies for identifying and preventing bugs
• Proactively refactor code that needs improvement, but without getting lost in constantly refactoring projects
• Build a secure application architecture and work with other teams to build a secure information architecture
• Become a reliable go-to resource on the team for feature changes and updates as new projects arise, such that you can be relied on to ship the changes in a timely manner at the quality level expected by the team

Competencies

• Growth mindset: receives feedback easily and incorporates it quickly
• Proactive executor: thoughtful in approach and decisive in decisions
• Pragmatic: balance scrappiness and rigor
• Great technical communicator
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong product and architectural instincts
• Enthusiasm and passion for quality
• Takes responsibility for making sure issues are resolved and shipped quickly

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Unlimited PTO
• We pay your medical, dental, & vision insurance premiums
• 401K
• Commuter benefits
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Fun, energetic work environment, and daily perks – snacks, drinks, catered lunch twice a week
• Opportunity to work with a product focused on making the world happier and healthier
  And much more!

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