Software Engineer, Backend Services

PLANOLY is the industry-leading social marketing platform trusted by over 5 million users to visually plan, schedule and measure performance across Instagram and Pinterest. PLANOLY is beautifully crafted to be simple, clean and easy to use. PLANOLY believes firmly in inclusivity and is thrilled to pave the way for brands, businesses and individuals of all backgrounds to carry out their digital marketing strategies seamlessly.

Planoly is looking for a thoughtful, well-rounded Software Engineer to join a rapidly growing startup and work on an application that brands, influencers, agencies and marketing firms are using every day. You will contribute on PLANOLY’s backend services engineering team responsible for APIs, infrastructure, and data pipelines and have a huge impact on Planoly by implementing new features, improving performance, and enabling new feature rollouts on client applications. Passion for social products and building great software is a must.

What You Will Do

• Ensure high quality, scalable code
• Partner with design and product team for new feature development
• Ensure system stability including monitoring key metrics and helping resolve issues
• Collaborate with team members in sprint ceremonies, code reviews, and interviews
• Assist in implementing effective processes and raising quality standards
• Contribute code in a variety of platforms and languages on PLANOLY’s backend systems
• Collaborate with client teams to develop backend services necessary to support new features

Who You Are

• 4+ years of engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent STEM field, or 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• Analytical and mathematical mind, capable of evaluating and solving various complex problems
• Strong technical understanding of server side technologies powering APIs such as NodeJS, PHP, Java, Ruby, Python, SQL, NoSQL, REST, and GraphQL
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (Lambda, EC2, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, S3) and DevOps tools such as Chef and Jenkins
• Self-motivated attitude with the ability to multitask and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Interpersonal communication skills with expertise in distilling complicated topics to a broader audience
• Experience working in server side frameworks such as Symfony, Rails, Express or Django is a plus.
• Experience with software testing and writing unit tests
• Experience working in a cross functional Scrum team.
• Experience using Git and related tools like GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket.

 Who We Are

• We are social media experts and first and foremost users of our tools to enhance our social media strategies. Planoly is built by influencers for influencers.
• We’re growing super fast and have been profitable since inception.
• We offer an open work environment where highly motivated engineers take full ownership of the products and help steer the firm.
• We are a huge advocate of work-life balance, which is seen in our open vacation and work-from-any-coffee-shops policies.
• We’ll provide you with lunch, snacks, drinks, and regular team outings. 

Learn more about Planoly at https://www.planoly.com and https://www.planoly.com/blog

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Information

Planoly is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified individuals seeking employment without regards to race, color, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected classification.