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InVision is the leading product design and development platform for teams building world-class digital products. It’s every company’s imperative to continuously innovate and improve on their customer experience: InVision’s platform, education, and community enable creative collaboration across teams and geographies for improved speed-to-market and powerful business results.
More than 7 million people across global enterprises and small teams come to us when they are looking for digital transformation. That process doesn’t start and end in any design tool: it encompasses ideation, conversation, visual collaboration and so much more. Teams use InVision to create, prototype and test new ideas; develop repeatable and streamlined processes in design, product and engineering; and improve workflows to move more efficiently from inspiration to production and drive innovation. The InVision platform allows teams to collaborate throughout the process with every stakeholder, giving individuals the visibility and know-how they require. Customers include 100 percent of the Fortune 100 and organizations including American Express, Adidas, Boeing, Ford Motor, Netflix, HBO, Ikea, Slack and Virgin Atlantic.
InVision is a fully distributed company with people in more than 20 countries. Investors include Accel, ICONIQ, FirstMark, Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, and Spark Capital.
Our team is in search of a Lead Software Engineer to help us change the way digital products are designed.
About the Team:
A part of our product-platform organization, the Shared Services team is responsible for providing secured, reliable and scalable services, running under AWS. This team owns high-throughput shared services that are core to our platform and inherently require a strong focus on scalability and performance. We’re a uniquely horizontal team integrating with every InVision product area. We’re highly collaborative and enjoy helping each other to get things done; our next teammate should share a similar mindset and help us strengthen our team culture.
What you’ll do:
- You’ll build robust backend services in Go that must be performant under load, scalable, and deliver large sets of data.
- Have the opportunity to contribute new ideas, and the ability to share your knowledge within and outside of the InVision organization
- Be pragmatic, know how/what to balance to deliver software with the most impact on time
- Be an ambassador for our culture where employees and customers come first, act with integrity and intelligent urgency
- Be a champion for the team in leading and improving processes towards engineering excellence
- Participate in code reviews and help to guide software architecture decisions
- Mentor and learn from the developers & product managers on your team
What you’ll bring:
- Strong backend expertise; API development, experience with Micro-services
- Motivation to understand the business, our users, their requirements, and to deliver results
- Passion for continued learning and a track record of picking up new technologies and skills as you ship awesome code
- Strong proficiency in Go; or professional experience in one of the following backend languages: C, C++, Java
- Ability and interest to learn and teach best engineering practices.
- Experience/ability to work with fully remote teams
- 5+ years experience in a fast moving tech environment
- An affinity for creating software that is extensible, performant, and easy to read
- BS or MS in computer science, mathematics or a related field, or equivalent work experience is a plus!
About InVision:
InVision offers an incredibly unique work environment. The company employs a diverse team all over the world. Each InVision team member is given the freedom and tools to do their best work from wherever they choose.
The benefits we offer in the United States and Canada include competitive health plans and retirement plans. Some InVision-wide benefits offered to all employees across the globe include a flexible vacation policy, monthly coffee shop stipends, annual allowances for books related to your profession, and home office setup & wellness reimbursements. InVision is an international employer so some benefit offerings will vary from country to country.
InVision is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.