Backend Engineer, Growth

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Who We Are</strong></h3> <div> <div>Verkada is a leader in cloud-based B2B physical security. Verkada offers six product lines — video security cameras, access control, environmental sensors, alarms, workplace and intercoms — integrated with a single cloud-based software platform.</div> <div> </div> <div>Designed with simplicity and scalability in mind, Verkada gives organizations the real-time insight to know what could impact the safety and comfort of people throughout their physical environment, while empowering them to take immediate action to minimize security risks, workplace frustrations and costly inefficiencies.</div> <div> </div> <div>Founded in 2016, Verkada has expanded rapidly with 15 offices across three continents, 2,100+ full-time employees and 30,000+ customers across 70+ countries.</div> </div></div><div> <p class="c-mrkdwn__pre" style="text-align: left;" data-stringify-type="pre">As a Backend Engineer on the Growth Engineering team, you will be at the forefront of developing and sustaining the vital growth infrastructure at Verkada. This role requires someone with a profound technical acumen combined with a passion for tackling complex business challenges. You will be instrumental in engineering robust, scalable systems that underpin our most mission-critical growth strategies and initiatives.</p> </div> <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li class="c-mrkdwn__pre" data-stringify-type="pre">Design and implement reliable and observable infrastructure that will help power Verkada's growth engine.</li> <li class="c-mrkdwn__pre" data-stringify-type="pre">Contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of backend systems to process the purchase journey and optimize automated workflows.</li> <li class="c-mrkdwn__pre" data-stringify-type="pre">Build a complex multivariate experimentation infrastructure to improve the marketing funnel's efficiency.</li> <li class="c-mrkdwn__pre" data-stringify-type="pre">Ensure the seamless integration of new technologies and platforms with existing infrastructure.</li> <li class="c-mrkdwn__pre" data-stringify-type="pre">Work cross functionally with Sales, Marketing, and Product, teams to translate complex business requirements, define feature specifications and implement them to provide end users with a better product experience.</li> <li class="c-mrkdwn__pre" data-stringify-type="pre">Drive innovation in marketing technology, continuously seeking ways to improve efficiency and effectiveness in our growth efforts.</li> </ul> <h3>Requirements</h3> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or similar degree).</li> <li>3+ years of experience in a Software Engineering role using backend technologies (python or similar language).</li> <li>Experience owning software architecture and API design.</li> <li>Ability to learn new systems / technologies quickly. Big plus if you enjoy proactively experimenting with new technologies and approaching traditional business challenges with unique engineering ideas.</li> <li>Ability and strong interest in communicating cross-functionally with non-technical stakeholders to derive requirements and architect solutions without a PM.</li> <li>Experience shipping large-scale, highly visible, external facing features/products is a plus.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>US Employee Benefits</strong></h3> <div> <p>Verkada is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all employe ... (truncated, view full listing at source)